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| Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls placed on display in Boko Haram video. (Screen capture from DemocracyNow video) |
The father of one of the nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria says he recognized his daughter in a video released by militant group Boko Haram.
The man, whose first name is Shettima, told VOA's Hausa Service Tuesday that he spotted his 18-year-old daughter in the video and believes he also recognized a neighbor's daughter.
The man, who is a resident of Chibok, the northeasern Nigerian village where the girls were kidnapped, said he did not want his last name nor his daughter's name publicly released for safety reasons.
The development comes after the mother of another kidnapped schoolgirl identified her daughter in the same video.
Dumoma Mpur, the parent-teachers association chairman at Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok told Reuters the woman watched the video on television Monday evening and spotted her daughter among the girls sitting on the ground and wearing veils.
"The video got parents apprehensive again after watching it but the various steps taken by the governments and the coming of the foreign troops is boosting our spirit, even though I have not seen the any one soldier in Chibok yet,'' Mpur told Reuters by telephone.
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