Chibok Girls-Boko Haram demands release of their bomb maker
President Buhari has revealed while there are in talks with Boko Haram
over Chibok girls, the insurgents have made their own demand .While
speaking in Paris, the president noted they asked for the release of
their arrested bomb maker .
“The issue of Chibok girls has occupied our minds and because of the
international attention it drew and the sympathy throughout the country
and the world, the government is negotiating with some of Boko Haram’s
leadership.
“It is a very sensitive development in the sense that first we have
to establish who are the genuine leaders of the Boko Haram. That is
number one. Number two, what are their terms? The first impression we
had was not very encouraging,”
“They wanted us to release one of their leaders who is a
strategic person in developing and making IEDs which have been causing a
lot of havoc in the country by blowing up people in churches, mosques,
market places, motor parks and other places.
“But it is very important that if we are going to talk to anybody, we have to know how much he is worth.
“Let them bring all the girls and then, we will be prepared to
negotiate. I will allow them to come back to Nigeria or to be absorbed
into the community. We have to be very careful; the concern we have for
the Chibok girls, one only imagine if they got a daughter there between
14 and 18 years and for more than one and a half years, a lot of the
parents who have died would rather see the graves of their daughters
rather the condition they imagine they were in.
“This has drawn a lot of sympathy thoughout the world; that is why
this government is getting very hard in negotiating and getting the
balance of those who are alive.”
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