We’re Ready To Swap Boko Haram Detainees For Chibok Girls – Buhari

Boko Haram Detainees: President Muhammadu Buhari has iterated the willingness of his government to negotiate the swap of the 200 abducted Chibok school girls with Boko Haram leaders in detention provided his government was dealing with the right leaders of the group.

We’re Ready To Swap Boko Haram Detainees For Chibok Girls

This he said during an interview with reporters at the sidelines of the ongoing sixth Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Buhari hinted that his administration was ready to dialogue with bonafide leaders of the Boko Haram sect who know 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.

‘‘What we said is that the government which I preside over is prepared to talk to bonafide leaders of Boko Haram.

‘‘If they do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognised Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), convince them that they are holding the girls and that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know.

‘‘If they do it through the ‘modified leadership’ of Boko Haram and they talk with an internationally recognised NGO then Nigeria will be prepared to discuss for their release.’’

The President warned that the Federal Government will not waste time and resources with “doubtful sources’’ claiming to know the whereabouts of the girls.

‘‘We want those girls out and safe. The faster we can recover them and hand them over to their parents, the better for us.’’

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