The Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, has called on the Federal Government to negotiate with Boko Haram in order to engender the freedom of the abducted schoolgirls of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
The forum was reacting to the condition given by the terror group that wives and members of the sect in detention should be set free.
The NEF urged the Federal Government to accept the offer by the sect to exchange the Chibok schoolgirls for the detained members.
The spokesman for the forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, said this while speaking with Punch in Abuja, on Monday.
Abdullahi said, “Whatever the case may be, whether they are asking for their members to be released in exchange for the girls or whether they are asking for family members or wives and children who are in detention to be released in place of the girls, the distinction doesn’t have to be that important.”
According to him, “what is important is the fact that the insurgents have identified their people who are being held and they have expressed a willingness to have them back in exchange for the girls.
“I understand that their members in detention are in their hundreds in various detention centres. So, if they are asking for just 237, I think it is worth the effort,” he said.
Daily Post.
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