Buhari: We will take all necessary measures to free Chibok girls

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s preparedness to discuss and secure the release of the 219 Chibok girls who were abducted by the Boko Haram sect.

He said this while speaking with journalists in Nairobi, Kenya on the sideline of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.

In a statement by his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the president was quoted as saying the Federal Government is ready to dialogue with bonafide leaders of the sect who know the whereabouts of the abducted girls.

‘‘I have made a couple of comments on the Chibok girls and it seems to me that much of it has been politicised.

‘‘What we said is that the government which I preside over is prepared to talk to bonafide leaders of Boko Haram.

‘‘If they do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognised Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), convince them that they are holding the girls & that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know.”

‘‘If they do it through the ‘modified leadership’ of Boko Haram and they talk with an internationally recognised NGO, then Nigeria will be prepared to discuss for their release,’’ he said.

Buhari also said the Federal Government would not waste time talking to unauthentic sources.

The president said the army with support from the country’s immediate neighbours; Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin have decimated the Boko Haram sect.

‘‘Some of the information about the division in BH is already in the press and I have read in the papers about the conflict in their leadership.

‘‘The person known in Nigeria as their leader, we understand was edged out and the Nigerian members of Boko Haram started turning themselves to the Nigerian military.

‘‘We learnt that in an air strike by the Nigeria Air Force he was wounded. Indeed their top hierarchy and lower cadre have a problem and we know this because when we came into power, they were holding 14 out of the 774 local governments in Nigeria.”

“But now they are not holding any territory and they have split to small groups attacking soft targets.”

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