Deadly group, Boko Haram is 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.
According to an activist, who pleaded anonymity with
AP because he was not authorized to talk to reporters on the sensitive
issue, it was revealed that Boko Haram’s current offer is limited to the girls
from the school in northeastern Nigeria whose mass abduction 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 5-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.
It will be recalled that Presidential adviser Femi Adesina
on Saturday stated that the Buhari led government “will not be averse” to talks
with Boko Haram.
