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Boko Haram may resume talks with FG


on july 09, 2015 at 6:38 am in news
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By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North with agency reports
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.

Boko Haram
“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.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/boko-haram-may-resume-talks-with-fg/

Hmmnm, BH is no more faceless under this regime

Wonder what happened to the recent offensive the Jonathan administration had against boko haram in the last days of his presidency. Did buhari order them to stop? Is this a war against his "kinsmen"?!

This is going to be interesting

They wnt to talk wt their big brothr ITFOT(In the fullness of time).

Just a brother to brother talk. Nothing much about it.

All these our media dem. Na so dem go jst dey free-style drop news.

Na fear dem done come fear soo...

In 9ice's voice ... They should "... turk, ayam listening"

I tot BH is doing what Allah said so Buhari want to talk to BH than Buhari is d BH

There will be truce one sweet day.

Rubbish,y would d govt talk to boko haram

Buhari is bent on ensuring that he lets his terrorist friends go Scot free.

To hell with that the negotiation!

Buhari is BH, BH is Buhari. Shikina.

It would be interesting to know what their demands would be.

The clean slate ish baffles me. I'm not a fan of that.

seunlayi:
Hmmnm, BH is no more faceless under this regime

The submission below should give you a clearer understanding

One of the sources which had been involved in previous attempts to broker peace between the Federal Government and the terrorists group

wic talk after killing many lives in yobe, plateau, borno, kano and Kaduna?









oya talk, we are listening...

kay1one2:
Boko Haram
“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.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/boko-haram-may-resume-talks-with-fg/

Whoever is behind all these boko haram killings or has a hand in it or a sympathizer, may all their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and generations to come know no peace.

Cc kingtom.. It has started already..

Whatever will stop the killings. Even if it means PMB begging them. Everybody wants to live his normal life without fear. At least let this one end then we can tackle the menace of the Nigerian Police.

PMB go on with your plan. Good or bad, Nigerians will always talk. Not all of them really mean well.

Bibidear:
Rubbish,y would d govt talk to boko haram

Because it's a more strategised way to overcome them.

undisputedgbola:
Because it's a more strategised way to overcome them.

are u sure,those guys av killed so many people,we just av to end all these,tot killing them was the best way to end it

To talk about what? They have killed over 30000 people for no just reason and government want to talk? This is a lazy man's approach for solving terrorism, there is high probability of them resuming their jihad even after some years of peace or ceasefire.