boko haram demands the setting free of one of their members (bomb specialist) in exchange for the chibok girls

According to my sources, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration is worried by the continued stay of the Chibok schoolgirls in the hands of their captors and is working tirelessly to get them released.


The president stated this on Tuesday in Paris while responding to questions from members of the Nigerian community in France under the auspices of Nigerians in Diaspora organisation (NIDO), according to reports from the New Agency of Nigeria(NAN) .
President Buhari noted that the unfortunate incident had attracted global attention and sympathy within and outside Nigeria and government could not fold its alms over the issue.
The president noted that the unfortunate incident had attracted sympathy and global attention both outside and within Nigeria and government could not fold its alms over the issue.



He said that the Federal government was ready to negotiate with boko haram and try their best to ensure their release.

President buhari's words, “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 (looking into possibility of) negotiating with some of the Boko Haram leadership.’’
He said, however , that the first thing to do is to get the genuine leaders, to avoid negotiating with the wrong people.
His words,  “It is a very sensitive development in the sense that first we have to establish, are they 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.’’
He revealed that to release one of its members who had been strategic in developing Improvised Explosives Devices  was one of the conditions given by the group
    “a demand that government will not accept”.

“They wanted us to release one of their leaders who is a strategic person in developing and making Improvised IEDs that is causing a lot of havoc in the country by blowing 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 in the community.
“We have to be very careful; the concern we have for the Chibok girls, one only imagines if they got a daughter there between 14 and 18 and for more than one and a half year, a lot of the parents who have died would rather see the graves of their daughters rather than the condition they imagine they are in.
“This has drawn a lot of sympathy throughout the world; that is why this government is getting very hard in negotiating and getting the balance of those who are alive.”
President Buhari assured the Diasporans that his administration was doing everything possible to improve on the state of the economy . Improving it through provision of infrastructure in critical sectors.
Mr. Femi Adesina ,special adviser of the president on Media and publicity, in July, confirmed the willingness of government to engage the sect if they were ready .
The chibok girls have really stayed long in the hands of boko haram and it is the responsibility of the Nigerian government to make sure they are rescued.  But releasing members of boko haram that makes bomb might not be a very nice move , from what I see.
Some Nigerians, who fielded questions during the interaction with President Buhari, requested to know what government was doing to guarantee the plight of the disabled.
According to reports, questions were also asked about the possibility of Diaspora Nigerians to vote during election.(NAN)
I am sure the government is trying their  best.