Boko Haram will free more than 200 young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in the town of Chibok last April in exchange for the release of militant leaders held by the government, The Associated Press has reported.

The agency said the claim was made by Fred Eno, an apolitical Nigerian who has been negotiating with Boko Haram for more than a year.

“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.
Fred Eno (possibly a pseudonym) who was involved in negotiations with Boko Haram last year and is close to current negotiators, told the AP that “another window of opportunity opened” in the last few days, though he could not discuss details.

He said the recent bombings that have killed over 350 people killed in the past nine days was meant to force government to hold negotiations.

Eno said the 5-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.

Two months of talks last year led government representatives and Eno to travel in September to a northeastern town where the prisoner exchange was to take place, only to be stymied by the Department for State Service, DSS, the activist said.
At the last minute, the agency said it was holding only four of the militants sought by Boko Haram, the activist said.

The activist said the DSS continues to hold suspects illegally because it does not have enough evidence for a conviction, and any court would free them.

Nigerian law requires charges be brought after 48 hours.

Amnesty International alleges that 8,000 detainees have died in military custody.

Boko Haram has not shown them since a May 2014 video in which its leader,

Abubakar Shekau warned: “You won’t see the girls again unless you release our brothers you have captured.”

In the video, nearly 100 of the girls, who have been identified by their parents, were shown wearing Islamic hijab and reciting the Quran. One of them said they had converted to Islam.
The presidency through Mr. Femi Adesina had said on Saturday that government was ready to hold talks with Boko Haram to stop the incessant killings.

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They will deny it soon

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Waiting for lie Muhammad

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Lalasticala?

starlingslimnet:
Waiting for lie Muhammad

But he is not the media spokesman of the president.

Hmmmm. .... We r watching

[size=18pt]I long predicted this.


This Chibok Scam is about to be dusted up and put in use once again.

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Boko Haram will just swap their wives in exchange for their men in captivity.

Their wives will later bennefit from a govt sponsored rehabilitation complete with cash gifts which is thus an indirect way of compensating Boko Haram members.

There are terrorist in nigeria and the terrorists are our leader#fact

I know terrorists are not usually negotiated with so to speak; however, bending d stance to free those girls should be considered.

If engaging them head on has so far not delivered the desired result, no pride in exploring negotiation to free the girls

Nawa o!

Bad idea

Negotiating with them may be bad. But not negotiating could be worse. We.detained their foot soilder and that hasn't stop them from attacking innocent citizens.
I.suggest we give them their men. Lets have the children back. Nemesis will catch up with them.

An Islamist leader was killed in Somalia today by French troops, report says the terrorist has been captured before but they got him out of jail to pay for an hostage last year.

Dis news must b from Liar muhamMad

Not surprised Pmb seeks to negotiate. Bokoharam named him to negotiate for them at a time which he rejected because of his ambitions.

Any amnesty without first settling and pacifying the families Bokoharam has wasted will mean injustice.

Lets see how it plays out.