Boko Haram to free 219 Chibok girls in swap deal for 18 commanders

After much persuasion, Boko Haram has agreed to release the abducted 219 Chibok girls if the Federal Government will simultaneously set free its 18 key commanders.

The two parties have asked their representatives to go back to their leaders on the new swap deal proposal.

Prior to the latest agreement at the talks in Abuja, which was witnessed by some officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC), Boko Haram had insisted on a piecemeal release of the girls, with priority given to 30 married Christians among them.

The Federal Government also offered to release six of the 18 sect leaders in detention.

The two sides maintained a parallel stand until they met again in Abuja at a session facilitated by the President, Civil Rights Congress (CRC),  Comrade Shehu Sani.

The sect said if the government attempted to secure the girls by force, it might lead to fatalities.

At the meeting, Boko Haram also maintained that it had the capacity to “engage the Federal Government for 45 years”.

It said the outcome of the talks would determine the end of the insurgency.

Some of those at the talks gave insights into the new dimension to the moves to free the Chibok girls, who were abducted from their hostel on April 15.

It was gathered that the session was attended by ICRC officials.

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Interview slashed

You once said the missing Chibok girls were not missing but some people discredited you. In any case, the girls are yet to be found; what is your view now?

I am elated that some rational thinking beings outside too hold the view that the story is false. The government should quit the pretence. No girls are missing and it is time to tell them eyeball to eyeball that no girls are missing and that they should stop playing politics with the truth. The missing Chibok girls’ story is a scam. Let us be rational. What has the intervention and support from the international community produced on the acclaimed missing girls? Germany, France and America brought their drones and searched, yet they have not brought any respite. If the girls are actually missing why have they not brought the girls back? We know that their antics are targeted at 2015, but we will resist them.

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