:00:00. > :00:00.woman on the FA board accuses the league of a culture of sexism. Now
:00:00. > :00:00.on BBC News, a special edition of Reporters on the Children of Chibok,
:00:07. > :00:26.presented by Tomi Oladipo from the Nigerian capital Abuja. Welcome to
:00:27. > :00:30.this special edition. I am here in the capital of Abuja. As we wait for
:00:31. > :00:34.news of the captured schoolgirls, we have a range of reports from our
:00:35. > :00:44.correspondents across the region. In this week's programme, the search
:00:45. > :00:50.for missing girls. John Simpson travels to Borno state, whether
:00:51. > :00:54.girls were abducted, finding growing anger against the Nigerian
:00:55. > :00:59.authorities. This is pretty extraordinary. The governor and all
:01:00. > :01:02.of the rest of us are being thrown out of here by the anger of the
:01:03. > :01:10.crowd. How safe are Nigeria's schools? We speak to those in fear
:01:11. > :01:17.of militants. Those wicked people are making me feel frightened. I am
:01:18. > :01:27.scared to go to school. We speak to the group behind the abductions. And
:01:28. > :01:30.bring back our girls, Will Ross speaks to the mothers of the
:01:31. > :01:35.abducted girls, who are going through every parent's worst
:01:36. > :01:46.nightmare. Whenever I think about her, I feel a deep sadness. I weep
:01:47. > :01:49.day and night, and hope that God will answer my prayers. It is a
:01:50. > :02:01.month since militants abducted girls in Nigeria and it has sparked
:02:02. > :02:04.outrage across the globe. The authorities say that all options
:02:05. > :02:07.have been considered to free them but there is no question of swapping
:02:08. > :02:10.any of the girls for prisoners of the insurgency held by the
:02:11. > :02:17.government. John Simpson travelled to Borno State and found growing
:02:18. > :02:20.anger. 136 girls, most of whom were Christian until a month ago,
:02:21. > :02:41.obediently chanted the first part of the Koran, dressed in Hijab. If you
:02:42. > :02:46.look closely, not all of them are chanting. It is the first sighting
:02:47. > :02:51.of them, and get more than half of the girls are not here. Either
:02:52. > :02:55.because they refused to convert or for some other reason. We do not
:02:56. > :02:59.know. One girl is led to the front of the crowd and told to give a
:03:00. > :03:05.Muslim name rather than her Christian one. She is clearly
:03:06. > :03:07.frightened. In the video, the leader, who is said to be
:03:08. > :03:25.flamboyant, clever and mocking, launches into a long speech. He says
:03:26. > :03:32.that the girls they are so concerned with have been liberated and have
:03:33. > :03:43.become Muslims. This man is desperate for news of the girls. He
:03:44. > :03:47.has made the dangerous journey from Chibok where they were kidnapped
:03:48. > :03:51.here to Maiduguri. More than six of his relatives were taken. But he
:03:52. > :03:59.cannot spot them in the video. This must be pretty shocking for you to
:04:00. > :04:07.see. It is one of the most shocking moments I ever find myself in. This
:04:08. > :04:11.is inhuman. It is not correct, it is unfair. There is no reason to push
:04:12. > :04:19.the Islamic religion on them. Everyone has a right to choose. This
:04:20. > :04:22.whole part of Nigeria is a Boko Haram territory, and to get around
:04:23. > :04:36.it you need firepower and lots of it. We had 40 official vehicles
:04:37. > :04:39.packed with armed men to guard us. We were going with the local
:04:40. > :04:46.governor and heading into the scene of one of the worst attacks here. It
:04:47. > :04:51.happened last week and it was scarcely reported, even in Nigeria.
:04:52. > :04:56.This is hostile territory. The road we are on would normally be very
:04:57. > :05:01.busy, but is almost empty. No one wants to drive along here after all
:05:02. > :05:07.the attacks. We have been passing deserted villages because people are
:05:08. > :05:25.scared of Boko Haram. After a couple of hours we reached the town. A
:05:26. > :05:31.bridge outside of it had been blown up last Wednesday. But two days
:05:32. > :05:42.earlier it was hit by an army. We counted hundreds of boat out cars.
:05:43. > :05:47.They massacred 375 people. Again, almost unnoticed by the outside
:05:48. > :05:50.world. The town centre was simply destroyed. The sheer scale of
:05:51. > :05:56.destruction is quite extraordinary. I had not expected this. You have to
:05:57. > :06:00.remember, all the attention around the world has been on the abduction
:06:01. > :06:05.of the schoolgirls but this is going on all the time in this part of
:06:06. > :06:08.Nigeria. The governor came here to offer help and money but the
:06:09. > :06:11.survivors are working themselves into a frenzy of anger that the
:06:12. > :06:27.Nigerian government should be doing so little to fight Boko Haram. The
:06:28. > :06:32.government did not help us. I have two ask you, the crowd is getting
:06:33. > :06:37.quite angry here. There is, of course, the dangers still. We are
:06:38. > :06:50.going to compensate them all for their losses. Reassure them that we
:06:51. > :06:56.are responsible for the security. Are you frightened of the attack? I
:06:57. > :07:02.am not frightened. But there was no calming them. The Governor was lucky
:07:03. > :07:08.to get away unhurt. This is pretty extraordinary. The governor and the
:07:09. > :07:12.rest of us are being thrown out of here by the anger of the crowd. We
:07:13. > :07:16.are having to get back to our cars pretty quickly. All of this anger is
:07:17. > :07:20.not surprising. People feel utterly abandoned and cannot understand why
:07:21. > :07:22.a world which cares so much about the missing schoolgirls seems to
:07:23. > :07:35.care so little about the destruction of an entire town. The capture of
:07:36. > :07:41.the schoolgirls has raised questions about the security of children in
:07:42. > :07:45.Nigerian schools. Our correspondent went to a government school in Abuja
:07:46. > :07:54.to hear how teachers and students feel about their safety. It is
:07:55. > :08:03.become every school child's nightmare. Even here in the relative
:08:04. > :08:06.safety of the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the thoughts of the children
:08:07. > :08:11.are with their kidnapped colleagues. I feel really terrible because they
:08:12. > :08:15.are girls like me. So no`one knows how they feel. Boko Haram, those
:08:16. > :08:27.wicked people are making me feel scared and I do not want to go to
:08:28. > :08:31.school. I am always afraid. Maybe they have not the same food. I feel
:08:32. > :08:37.sorry for them and I always pray for them. Nigeria is a very big country
:08:38. > :08:44.and goes like this are part of the reality as well. `` schools like
:08:45. > :08:49.this. But the mass kidnapping in the north`east has served to highlight
:08:50. > :08:59.the vicious war that is taking place between the Nigerian government and
:09:00. > :09:05.the Coho ROM. `` and Boko Haram. They have attacked schools in this
:09:06. > :09:13.area as well and so they have set up defences around their charges. The
:09:14. > :09:21.schools are spent. Unlike before, the schools were not fenced. We have
:09:22. > :09:27.students checking in and out. All visitors and outsiders as well. The
:09:28. > :09:38.boarding school which was attacked in north`eastern Nigeria would have
:09:39. > :09:43.needed more than strong fencing. It is in the middle of a war zone. Boko
:09:44. > :09:48.Haram means western education is a scene. The leader of this union says
:09:49. > :09:55.hundreds of members have been killed in the Islamist group. These people
:09:56. > :10:06.will just come from nowhere and target teachers. They are the ones
:10:07. > :10:13.pushing education. This group does not want that. What they want is
:10:14. > :10:21.Arabic education. You want to give this education to the young ones.
:10:22. > :10:29.They are enemy number one. It has come to this. Part of Nigeria are
:10:30. > :10:38.not safe for schoolchildren or their teachers. The fate of the girls has
:10:39. > :10:43.sparked worldwide interest and a campaign to free them and has
:10:44. > :10:48.focused attention on Boko Haram. As Nigeria marks its first anniversary
:10:49. > :10:55.of a state of emergency against them, we explore what we know about
:10:56. > :10:58.the Islamist group. More than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls seen this week
:10:59. > :11:04.for the first time since their abduction, the latest incident in a
:11:05. > :11:12.campaign of violence. So who are Boko Haram? This man took on the
:11:13. > :11:20.leadership in 2009, steadily increasing the level of violence. He
:11:21. > :11:26.took over after the former leader was killed by government sources. He
:11:27. > :11:30.took over with the aim of creating an Islamist state in the north of
:11:31. > :11:39.the country. The name of the group loosely translates as" Western
:11:40. > :11:47.education is forbidden" , opposing outside influences in Nigerian
:11:48. > :11:56.culture. Are domestic terrorists. `` they are. Their aims are to upset
:11:57. > :12:02.and undermined the Nigerian state. Starting off with lone gunmen, have
:12:03. > :12:07.evolved and killed thousands in recent years. Tactics against the
:12:08. > :12:14.government have not been very effective. I think the group has
:12:15. > :12:18.become more bold and more sophisticated. The girls were taken
:12:19. > :12:24.from this town in the northeast of the country, a stronghold for Boko
:12:25. > :12:35.Haram. For the past year, there has been emergency rule in three states
:12:36. > :12:40.trying to cope with their violence. Boko Haram draws local support from
:12:41. > :12:46.the ground with those in poverty who lack education and have ample
:12:47. > :12:50.funding. At present they have very diversified funding. They are
:12:51. > :12:56.involved in a number of criminal activities including bank
:12:57. > :13:00.robberies, and possibly drug trafficking and people smuggling.
:13:01. > :13:02.They kidnap people for the purposes of extortion and are possibly
:13:03. > :13:12.getting support from local businesspeople. They are also
:13:13. > :13:16.getting funding from Al`Qaeda. Estimates of the number of fighters
:13:17. > :13:30.range from the hundreds to a few thousand. They may be some links ``
:13:31. > :13:34.their to Al`Qaeda but it is primarily domestic. There are fears
:13:35. > :13:39.that the insurgency will spread across the borders of Nigeria. Many
:13:40. > :13:48.have fled to Niger to escape the violence. The insurgents may be
:13:49. > :13:57.paying to recruit fighters from there. There is little comfort to
:13:58. > :14:01.take from a sand storm but at least it feels safe here. These Nigerian
:14:02. > :14:06.refugees were pushed over the border after Boko Haram rated their
:14:07. > :14:14.village. Nigerians are fleeing I boat. `` by. It is estimated that
:14:15. > :14:20.thousands crossed into new share each week. This man arrived last
:14:21. > :14:25.month with his wives and children. TRANSLATION: I was going to bed when
:14:26. > :14:33.we heard the first gunshots. When we ran to escape, a little girl was
:14:34. > :14:39.shot as she fled her burning house. He says he counted 50 dead in the
:14:40. > :14:43.streets. It is a growing refugee rights as but without camps. It is
:14:44. > :14:49.feared that they could become recruitment centres for Boko Haram.
:14:50. > :14:52.They have shown that they can hit the Nigerian state in different
:14:53. > :14:57.ways. Attacking schools and abducting children, burning villages
:14:58. > :15:03.and much more. Their neighbours are dealing with the consequences of
:15:04. > :15:08.this violence and the threat of it spilling over is becoming a question
:15:09. > :15:14.of not if, but when they will strike your. The border is constantly
:15:15. > :15:21.patrolled and several attacks have been carried out over the past
:15:22. > :15:25.month. Several men with links to Boko Haram have been arrested. We
:15:26. > :15:29.have made contact with a local gang who claim they are in contact with
:15:30. > :15:35.Boko Haram. They agreed to talk to us but demanded that we do not show
:15:36. > :15:38.their faces. They told us that five of their group have joined the
:15:39. > :15:46.Nigerian militants and some have already been killed. TRANSLATION:
:15:47. > :15:50.Some of us are with them now and we give them information about what is
:15:51. > :15:56.going on. I come to us and we informed them. It they told you to
:15:57. > :16:03.launch an attack here, would you be ready to do that? Yes, we are ready.
:16:04. > :16:11.We have no job and so we are ready. That is what we are here for. Boko
:16:12. > :16:15.Haram have paid them ?2000 to join their insurgency. It is the cash
:16:16. > :16:23.they are interested in. They have no interest in Sharia law. This region
:16:24. > :16:38.is fragile and is now threatened ID crisis next door that is fueled by
:16:39. > :16:42.poverty and neglect. `` by the. Nowhere in Nigeria is now safe from
:16:43. > :16:49.Boko Haram. But they have also carried out attacks in distant
:16:50. > :16:52.cities including one two years ago in which 185 people were killed. The
:16:53. > :16:59.town is still struggling to return to normal. This is what this town is
:17:00. > :17:05.known for, its trade is primarily in textiles and it has become a major
:17:06. > :17:10.commercial hub. Now it's state this has been threatened by the upsurge
:17:11. > :17:16.in violence in recent years. The bloodshed has mostly been in the
:17:17. > :17:21.north but business has dipped since the attack two years ago. Our
:17:22. > :17:28.business has gone down and customers do not want to come. They are afraid
:17:29. > :17:38.to come here. For some it is not possible. Some come through the
:17:39. > :17:45.border and it is very difficult to get through. It might not be under a
:17:46. > :17:50.state of emergency but the effects of the violence are clearly being
:17:51. > :17:53.felt here. It has suffered its own incidents of violence and that has
:17:54. > :18:01.prompted widespread caution in this centre of commercial of at ``
:18:02. > :18:06.activity. This group is made up mostly of volunteers, most nominated
:18:07. > :18:10.by their own neighbourhoods to joined this unit which has become a
:18:11. > :18:16.part of the fight against Boko Haram. They might have the firepower
:18:17. > :18:25.but they are armed with information which the permit may not have. We
:18:26. > :18:31.help them in terms of information gathering. We give them vital
:18:32. > :18:37.information so that we can curtail the issues. We are assisting greatly
:18:38. > :18:41.and for some time, Boko Haram has come to realise that we are
:18:42. > :18:48.assisting police. I have killed some of our members but we cannot
:18:49. > :18:55.relent. There is no song and dance in the worst affected areas. The
:18:56. > :19:02.violent campaign of Boko Haram will undoubtedly result in more
:19:03. > :19:09.bloodshed. The schoolgirl abduction * every parent's worst nightmare.
:19:10. > :19:24.The parents of the girls field powerless `` feel and our `` are
:19:25. > :19:28.angry at the lack of action by the government. They are in agony not
:19:29. > :19:34.knowing the fate of their abducted doctors. TRANSLATION: Since they
:19:35. > :19:41.were taken away, it has been very difficult for us. Many have come to
:19:42. > :19:48.sympathize with us. Our family stayed awake all night. We wonder
:19:49. > :19:55.what they are going through and where they are being held. When my
:19:56. > :19:59.daughter was leaving for school she told me that she would come back
:20:00. > :20:07.soon and I gave her the money for transport and said goodbye. I was
:20:08. > :20:12.told that she had been abducted. Since our children were abducted,
:20:13. > :20:18.life has been difficult for us. We do not sleep well. Most of us fell
:20:19. > :20:25.sick. I am suffering from high blood pressure. We hardly eat because of
:20:26. > :20:27.this situation. The president of Nigeria has been accused of not
:20:28. > :20:51.doing enough to rescue the girls. Seeing as the president admitted
:20:52. > :20:58.that the girls had not been located let alone rescued, demonstrations
:20:59. > :21:01.are unlikely to die down. As each day goes by the international
:21:02. > :21:06.outrage is growing stronger. Beyond putting pressure on the government
:21:07. > :21:09.to talk about the missing girls, there is no evidence to suggest that
:21:10. > :21:15.the parents are any closer to getting their children back. My
:21:16. > :21:23.doctor is a very obedient and hard`working child. `` daughter.
:21:24. > :21:31.When I think about her I feel a deep pain. We pray day and night and hope
:21:32. > :21:34.that God will answer our prayers. The mothers of the girls have
:21:35. > :21:40.already been on the streets and say that no one has said a word to them
:21:41. > :21:45.about rescue efforts. Perhaps that is why they put their faith in God
:21:46. > :21:46.and not in government. That is all from this special edition of
:21:47. > :22:12.Reporters. Goodbye for now. The highest temperature over the
:22:13. > :22:30.weekend was 23.9degreesC. If you wondering weather or not this was
:22:31. > :22:32.warmer than other places in Europe Tommy yes it was. ``, . The