77 girls identified in Boko Haram video – Governor Shettima

A spokesman for the Borno state governor said parents, students and teachers have now identified 77 of the girls shown in the video, released Monday by Agence France-Presse, a French news agency.

“Remember, I also said that on face value, all the girls in the video are believed to part of the abducted girls, but Governor Shettima has insisted that the names of all the girls in the video be established and compared with school and security records,” spokesman Isa Gusau said Tuesday.

“The comparison will be done tomorrow as (the) identification exercise continues through the night until every person in that video is named,” said Gusau.

Earlier, Shettima had said that relatives had identified just 54 of the girls. Shettima said he met with families of the kidnapped girls earlier Tuesday in Borno state’s capital, Maiduguri, at which time the families identified some of their girls.

Shettima said the others also attended the school, but he did not explain how he knew that.

CNN has not yet received confirmation from any parents that their daughters were among the girls shown in the video.

Some relatives also told CNN that more than 50 parents of girls abducted last month watched the videos in the Mbalala district and also in Chibok, and didn’t see any of their daughters in the crowd.