Federal Government Opened Negotiations With Boko Haram For Chibok Girls - Buhari

                             

President Buhari yesterday in France disclosed that the government has started a dialogue with Boko Haram in other to facilitate the release of over 200 Chibok girls kidnapped over a year, during his meeting with Nigerians Community in France under the auspices of Nigerian in Diaspora Organistion, NIDO.
He said the Government is in the  process of identifying the true leadership of the sect, but vowed not to release the IED's Developer of the sect which is a condition given by the sect for releasing the Chibok girls.


He said: “The issue of Chibok girls has occupied our minds and because of the international attention it drew and the sympathy through out the country and the world, the government is negotiating with some of the Boko Haram leadership.”
“It is a very sensitive development in the sense that first we have to establish, are they genuine leaders of the Boko Haram. That is number one. Number two, what are their terms, the first impression we had was not very encouraging.
“They wanted us to release one of their leaders who is a strategic person in developing and making Improvised IEDs that is causing a lot of havoc in the country by blowing people in Churches, Mosque, market places, motor parks and other places. But is very important that if we are going to talk to any body, we have to know how much he is worth.
 “Let them bring all the girls and then, we will be prepared to negotiate, I will allow them to come back to Nigeria or to be absolved in the community. We have to be very careful, the concern we have for the Chibok girls, one only imagine if they got a daughter there between 14 and 18 and for more than one and a half year, a lot of the parents who have died would rather see the graves of their daughters rather the condition they imagine they are in.”

President Buhari explained further that He added that “This has drawn a lot of sympathy through out the world, that is why this government is getting very hard in negotiating and getting the balance of those who are alive.”