The Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity will not return home to their families, according to one of the Boko Haram commanders paraded by the Kano state police command on Wednesday.
Eight members of the terror group suspected to be involved in the kidnap of the 276 students from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok Borno state in 2014 were paraded by the police yesterday.
While 163 of the girls have been returned, over 100 are believed to be in the custody of the terrorist group.
Abba Kyari, assistant police commissioner of Lagos, told CNN that Mayinta Modu, a Boko Haram commander among those paraded, said the remaining girls have been married to Boko Haram commanders and are not coming back.
According to Modu, the girls have “accepted the Boko Haram doctrine and don’t see any reason to leave their husbands”.
Modu reportedly told the police that he was one of the Boko Haram commanders who “coordinated and led” the kidnapping in April 2014.
“They said many of the girls have accepted the Boko Haram doctrine and don’t see any reason to leave their husbands. It’s only those that were desperate to come that were released in that swap deal,” Kyari said.
“They confessed that they were part of the group that kidnapped the Chibok girls. One of them, a commander said they were over a 100 members of the militant group took part in that abduction.”