There are strong indications that the
218 schoolgirls abducted six months ago in Chibok, Borno State, by the
violent Boko Haram sect may be released on Monday following a ceasefire
agreement between the sect and the Federal Government.
The Federal Government, through the
Nigerian military, had on Friday said that it had agreed to a ceasefire
with the violent sect and that the Chibok girls would soon be released.
The deal was announced by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh.
The military has struggled to defeat Boko Haram sect which began attack against Nigeria since 2009.
The Islamist militant group sparked global outrage six months ago by abducting more than 200 girls from the town of Chibok.Continue...
Badeh said, “A ceasefire agreement has
been concluded between the Federal Government and the Jama’atu Ahlis
Sunna Lidda’awati wal Jihad (Boko Haram).”
The President’s Principal Secretary, Hassan Tukur, told BBC Focus on Africa that an agreement to end the Boko Haram hostilities had been reached after talks with the violent group.
He said the agreement was reached after
one month of negotiations in Saudi Arabia. The negotiation was said to
have been headed by the Chadian President Idriss Deby.
Tukur said Boko Haram announced a unilateral ceasefire on Thursday and the government had responded.
He said, “The Boko Haram members have
assured us that they have the girls and that they will release them. I
am cautiously optimistic.”
Tukur and Danladi Ahmadu, who calls himself the Secretary-General of Boko Haram, told VOA’s Hausa-language service that the abducted girls would be released on Monday in Chad.
The girls are alive and “in good condition and unharmed,” Ahmadu said.
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