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B’Haram makes offer over Chibok girls
Seemingly buying into the position that the new government is open to negotiations, the Boko Haram terrorist group has said it would release the over 200 school girls kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state in exchange for some of its members detained by government.
An activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press (AP) said, “The new initiative reopens an offer made last year to the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan to release the 219 students in exchange for 16 Boko Haram detainees”.
According to the source who explained that he was not authorised to talk to reporters on the sensitive issue, the sect’s current offer is limited to the schoolgirls abducted on April 14, 2014 alone.
He said the five-week-old administration of President Muhammadu Buhari “offers a clean slate” to bring the militants back to negotiations that had become poisoned by the different security agencies and their advice to Jonathan.
Read also: Buhari begs BBOG for patience
It will be recalled that the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Saturday stated that the Buhari-led government “will not be averse” to talks with Boko Haram.
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Don Lucassi
July 9, 2015 at 10:28 am
I dont know what to make of this. I should agree with this that, whatever makes those girls get released alive after more than a year should be welcome. At the same time, the idea of negotiating with terrorist, and more, releasing more of their members to them is, not something I feel any government should be doing. I guess I will let my conflict resolution side win on this one.
AGUDE
July 9, 2015 at 11:26 am
All i can say is….. no terrorism is bigger than government..
so Government should make things appropriately to release those innoncent children
I rest my Case.
victor
July 9, 2015 at 11:34 am
same old story who is their men negotiating this man inhumanity to man posterity will judge all of us in the evil we do to our neighbors.remember the evil that men do will live on them and after them. who is profiting from this killings, how they they feed who cook for them who get water for BH, the cars and the fuel who supply them. are you guys aware if the means of food supply is cut off this guys will surrender, if you say they pursue them into chad and chad pursue them back to Nigeria how are they feeding to gather strength for the next attack, as Military personnel about what i just said now, if go to the battle feed you must eat to have strength to fight.i rest my case here
Bukola Ajisola
July 11, 2015 at 7:25 am
This might just be another scam to negotiate with pseudo insurgent impostors,in any case the u.s.a is in possession of a medical technology that allows the state to monitor activities and movements of released criminals through surgical means .The question is whether the u.s is prepared to sell such technology with the tendency for imitation by China .