AT LAST !!! BUHARI CONSIDERS SWAPPING BOKO HARAM DETAINEES FOR CHIBOK GIRLS

BUHARI CONSIDERS SWAPPING BOKO HARAM DETAINEES FOR CHIBOK GIRLS

Sunday, August 28, 2016

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resident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his administration’s readiness to negotiate the release of the over 200 girls abducted in their school in Chibok, Borno State in 2014, including exchanging them with Boko Haram detainees.


He however said his administration would only enter into discussions on the girls with the authentic leaders of the sect who are free to contact the Federal Government through internationally-recognised Non-Governmental Organisation.


According to a statement on Sunday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President made this known while granting press interview on the sidelines of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development holding in Nairobi, Kenya.


Buhari said his administration was ready to dialogue with authentic leaders of the sect who can convince the government that they are the ones holding the girls and they know their (the girls’) whereabouts.
He said, “I have made a couple of comments on the Chibok girls and it seems to me that much of it has been politicised.   Read more