According to a member of the group who spoke on Tuesday during with the American commercial broadcast television network, CBS-TV, the girls were abducted because there are enemies among them.
“You see the enemies among the children”, said the man who introduced himself as Saleh Abubakar.
“It is accepted to fire on all of them. You cannot differentiate the children. You understand?”
Selah refuted reports that some of the kidnapped girls are sick, and require medical attention saying, he saw them three weeks ago, and all of them were fine.
“It’s a lie”, he told the CBS Evening News Correspondent. “They don’t have any problem at all.”
However, he said the girls would not be sold to slavery, as Abubakar Shekau initially said in a video message days after the abduction. His reasoning, he told CBS-TV, is “because they had converted willingly to Islam.” But Shekau had maintained that the government must first release all Boko Haram fighters currently in detention.
Shekau shunned questions on whether the girls had truly been moved across the Nigerian border, as well as al-Qaeda’s alleged sponsorship of Boko Haram.
“No, no. I will not tell you anything about this,” he said. “But they are my brothers in Islam. Even in America, we have brothers.”
On whether Boko Haram intends to kidnap more girls, Abubakar Shekau told CBS News: “Yes, there are plans. Yes.”
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