A video has emerged showing hundreds of boys Boko Haram says it kidnapped from their school in Kankara.

In the videos, the boys are made to relay demands of the terrorist group, asking for vigilante groups to be dissolved and all schools “excluding Islamiyyah” closed.

The video, believed to have been released by the terrorist group, shows the boys looking dirty and sandy, packed together under foliage.

Some are weeping, some are visibly distraught, and speaking in tear-broken voice.

One boys stands in the middle of the rest and in a shaky voice speaks to the camera.

“You have to dissolve any gang of vigilantes and close any kind of schools, excluding Islamiyyah”, he says.

Islamiyyah is the religious education model in which learn Islamic text in Arabic, popular throughout Northern Nigeria.