Boko Haram Negotiator Says The Group Plan To
Exchange Chibok girls for comrades
by the legend(m): 2:28pm
Nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by
Islamist militants could be released in exchange for
jailed comrades, a former Boko Haram negotiator
has reportedly said.
The group snatched the girls from their boarding
school in Chibok in the lawless Borno region in the
north of the country.
A former mediator of the group has told the
Telegraph he believes the video, where Boko Haram
leader Abubakar Shekau threatens to sell the girls as
slaves, shows he plans to use them as ‘bargaining
chips’ rather than kill them.
Shehu Sani says he believes that the footage,
released on Monday, was an attempt to persuade
the Nigerian government into a prisoner trade.
He told the newspaper: ‘From my knowledge of the
group, to have him saying that he will sell them is
proof that this issue can be resolved.
‘The group is most likely to want to attach some kind
of conditions to the girls being released, such as the
freeing of some of their own prisoners.
SOURCE - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
article-2623239/Former-Boko-Haram-negotiator-says-
group-plan-exchange-300-kidnapped-schoolgirls-
comrades-imprisoned-Nigeria.html
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