Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his country’s readiness to release Boko Haram leaders for the missing Chibok girls abducted in 2014.
Nigeria ready to exchange Boko Haram detainees for Chibok girls - Buhari
On the sidelines of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, Buhari told the media on Sunday that the government is ready to dialogue with the “bonafide” leaders of the terrorist group.
“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,” President Buhari’s official spokesperson Garba Shehu quoted him as saying.
6. ‘‘If they do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognised Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO),...— Garba Shehu (GarShehu) August 28, 2016
Pressure has been mounting on the Nigerian government to act swiftly in the search for the school girls who were abducted in 2014 after a raid of their school dormitories by Boko Haram in Chibok while they were sleeping at night.
A series of protests were held in August by the Bring Back Our Girls activists demanding a response from the government to the recent video from the terrorist group.