Boko Haram willing to discuss surrender and release of Chibok girls

Boko Haram seems to willing to broker a deal with the federal government to release the remaining kidnapped Chibok school girls in return for escaping prosecution.

According to a report in The  LondonTimes, senior members of the terrorist group said that it was prepared to negotiate a surrender and release the hostages on the condition they would not be not betrayed by the government or killed for giving up arms.Amir Muhammad Abdullahi, who is reportedly Boko Haram's second in command said...


    "We want to surrender because things are getting worse,"  He said no side was winning the battle and that only a third of the girls remained as "the rest have been martyred".

It comes as two Chibok girls have reportedly been released – one of whom called Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki who was found near Sambisa forest and believed to have been freed as a 'gesture of good faith' by the militants.


However, there was confusion mounting over whether the second girl who was freed in a raid on a Boko Haram camp on 19 May, was from Chibok. Yakubu Nkeke told The Times:

     "I can say in my capacity as the head of the Chibok Abducted Girls Parents group that this girl is not among the abducted girls."

Over 200 students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, were seized two years ago and have not been traced or found.

The Times of London believes only a third of them remain alive.

The paper reported that senior members of the terrorist group said it was prepared to negotiate a surrender and release the hostages on the condition they would not be not betrayed by the government or killed for giving up arms.

“We want to surrender because things are getting worse,” said Amir Muhammad Abdullahi, who is reportedly Boko Haram’s second in command. He said no side was winning the battle and that only a third of the girls remained as “the rest have been martyred”.