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Many of the kidnapped Chibok girls have been forcefully converted to Islam, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday.
He said this in an interview with BBC Hausa service.
The president said the girls, who were abducted in April 2014 by Boko Haram, had been dispersed and were kept in units at different locations.
According to the translation of the interview done by Daily Trust, Buhari said:“They have scattered them, and are being guarded at dispersed locations. Most of the girls are Christians and were forced to embrace Islam. And the sect’s cruel leaders have married some of the girls, obviously against their wish. Others have been left to practice their religion but their condition could hardly be ascertained.
“Both ground and air security personnel in the Sambisa forest could spot where the girls are, but since the insurgents have also kidnapped housewives and other women, no one could say whether they mixed them or how they dispersed them”.