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Boko Haram May Resume Talks With FG by HolyHero: 6:57am On Jul 09, 2015 |
ABUJA — Sources close to the leadership of the Boko
Haram insurgents have told Vanguard that the group
might have agreed to hold talks with the new leadership
in Nigeria with the aim of ending the six-year-old
insurgency in the country.
One of the sources which had been involved in previous
attempts to broker peace between the Federal
Government and the terrorists group confirmed to
Vanguard last night that there were some level of
discussions between the group and the government but
that the “government does not want to be seen to be
negotiating with the terrorists.”
The source, who works with an international agency
with some presence in Nigeria, said: “I can tell you that
there is some behind-the-scene informal discussion with
certain segments of the Buhari administration, going on
in Nigeria.
“But the truth is that the government does not want to
be seen to be talking with the group apparently because
of the failure of all previous efforts to dialogue with the
Boko Haram men in and outside Nigeria under the
previous administration.
“The aim of the renewed effort is to resuscitate the
discussions from where we ended abruptly under the
Jonathan administration and take it forward from there
since there is a new government in place in Nigeria.
“The true position is that some of those with contacts
with the leadership of the Boko Haram have gone back
to assure them that there is a new government in place
and that things can be done differently from what it
was in the past when they were dribbled over and over
again by top government officials who wanted to make
quick gains under the guise of negotiating with the
militants.”
The source said the militant leaders had been assured
that the Buhari government was more open and ready
to negotiate with them.
“Indeed, we have begun the peace process from the
Boko Haram side and that may signal a new hope for
the release of the missing Chibok girls,” the source said.
It will be recalled that the Presidency had hinted last
week that it might negotiate with the dreaded Boko
Haram leadership in order to end the cycle of violence
that has wreaked havoc in Nigeria in the last six years.
Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, who gave the
hint, did not, however, give a timeline when the
negotiation would start and who the government
intended to deal with in carrying out the assignment.
Boko Haram is said to be offering to free more than
200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding
school in the town of Chibok in exchange for the release
of militant leaders held by the government.
An Associated Press quoted an unnamed activist as
saying that Boko Haram’s current offer is limited to the
Chibok girls who were taken in April 2014.
“The new initiative reopens an offer made last year to
the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan
to release the 219 students in exchange for 16 Boko
Haram detainees,” the activist said.
He said the five-week-old administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari offers “a clean slate” to bring the
militants back to negotiations that had become
poisoned by the different security agencies and their
advice to Jonathan. |
Re: Boko Haram May Resume Talks With FG by barbstee(m): 7:00am On Jul 09, 2015 |
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