Boko Haram agree to swap some Chibok girls for 18Commanders

\After a secret
negotiation, Boko Haram has agreed to release some of the
abducted 219 Chibok girls, The Nation learnt yesterday.
The sect has listed 18 of its key members, who it said should be
freed from detention in exchange for the girls.
But there was a snag last night because while the government
wanted freedom for all the 219 Government Secondary School,
Chibok girls, the sect said it would free only 30. The girls have
been in captivity for 149 days.
Boko Haram sent the list of its commanders and the 30 girls to
be swapped to a minister, who is also a lawyer, an
elderstatesman and a key facilitator of peace with the sect,
Comrade Shehu Sani, who is also the President of the Civil Rights
Congress of Nigeria, according to sources.
The list, it was learnt, was sent after secret talks between a
government delegation and a Boko Haram commander, who is
being detained in Kuje Prison in Abuja. But there was no
confirmation of this last night.
According the sources, the delegation, whose membership was
kept under wrap, discussed with the commander, who is simply
described as Umar.
One of the sources said: “Some top officials met with Umar about
two weeks ago in Kuje Prison to discuss issues connected to the
fate of the Chibok girls.
“We heard some inmates sharing this information that the sect
might swap the girls with Umar and others. But all the details
are still secret because Umar keeps to himself a lot.”
But another source said: “The delegation had a fruitful
negotiation with Umar, who is one of the highly-rated
commanders of Boko Haram. The group assured Umar of a swap
and he has been looking forward to it.
“The sect has given a list of 18 of its members to be swapped
with the abducted Chibok girls.”
It was, however, gathered that the fresh negotiation has suffered
a little setback because Boko Haram has agreed to set free only
30 of the remaining 219 girls in its custody.
The government has offered to release the 18 key Boko Haram
leaders/ members only on the condition that all the Chibok girls
will be freed.
Some security agents are said to have given “cautious advice” to
the government when there was “no full assurance that all the
girls will be released”.
“So, technically, the release of 30 girls was unacceptable to the
government based on the advice of some security agents,”
another source said, adding:
“You can see why Nigerians should stop blaming Boko Haram
from continuously keeping these girls in captivity. What is of
concern now is to get even these 30 girls out to prove to the
whole world that they are alive.”
Sani simply said last night: “No comment.”
Earlier in May, Sani explained why he and some Boko Haram
contacts had audience with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in
Abeokuta.
He said the session was meant to open a new channel for
dialogue with the sect to rescue the girls.
He said: “The meeting in Abeokuta was aimed at repackaging
and salvaging the dialogue option.”
It was not immediately clear if the latest talks had any
connection with the repackaging or not.
The Chairman of the Presidential Fact-Finding Committee on the
abduction of Chibok girls, Brig-Gen. Ibrahim Sabo, had on July
22 said the incident was real, contrary to misinterpretation in
some quarters.
He also said 276 pupils were abducted, but 219 were
unaccounted for, as at the time of submitting the report.
He said 57 of the abducted pupils had been reunited with their
families after escaping from the sect.
Gen. Sabo, who made the disclosures in an address at the
presentation of the committee’s report to the President, said 119
pupils escaped from the school premises before the insurgents
took away their classmates.”

people from different sense!

if govt try am,dats d end of goodluck jonathan presidential ambition,this is trap,if he agrees,dey will say he negotiated with terrorist,if those boko are release,believe u me,they will cause more havoc,by kidnapping more people for exchange,mind u 20 police men are still missing,tbey should take a closer look at obasanjo,he never likes jonatha,and d president is blind to c dat,dats my 5% tot,on this matter

Good thinking! Hope jona no be small pikin,hin know waiting (WESTERN WORLD)go believed

Wel to me its stupid idea. Why few girls?what wil the othe parents be thinking when their daughter was not released

So they (govt) should not negotiate with LUNATICS bàà?

cableman02 wrote:

So they (govt) should not negotiate with LUNATICS bàà?

to me yes. Those devils have run out of food or the kids are sick

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faithchild wrote:

if govt try am,dats d end of goodluck jonathan presidential ambition,this is trap,if he agrees,dey will say he negotiated with terrorist,if those boko are release,believe u me,they will cause more havoc,by kidnapping more people for exchange,mind u 20 police men are still missing,tbey should take a closer look at obasanjo,he never likes jonatha,and d president is blind to c dat,dats my 5% tot,on this matter

Icompletely agree with you. The FG should be wise.

Bábá amowè will are lost on this,maybe will need (Smile2012)for complete answers!!

I neva thot of obasanjo.yeaa its a gud thot.

we want all the girls released

we want all the girls released

isaac311 wrote:

we want all the girls released

thats correct