More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive 3 weeks ago, a woman has told the BBC. The Nigerian woman, who lived under Boko Haram's rule in Gwoza, said she saw the girls in Islamic attire, being escorted by the militants.
"They said they were Chibok girls kept in a big house," said the woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. We just happened to be on the same road with them," the woman said.
Another woman told BBC she last saw some of the girls in November 2014 at a Boko Haram camp in Bita village, also in the north-east;
"About a week after they were brought to the camp, one of us peeked through a window and asked: Are you really the Chibok girls?' and they said: 'Yes'. We believed them and didn't ask them again. They took Koranic lessons, cleaned their compound, cooked for themselves and they braided each others' hair. They were treated differently - their food [was] better and water clean."
Tuesday April 14, will mark exactly 1-year when over 250 students of Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State where abducted from their school by the Boko Haram insurgents.
