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This immediately attracted knocks and kudos for the government. After months of patient negotiations, our security agencies have taken back these abducted girls in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects held by the authorities.” €œThe President is pleased to announce that negotiations to release more of the Chibok Girls have born fruits with the release of 82 more girls today. He added that the release was a follow-up to the earlier freedom of 21 girls in October last year, after which he said the president tasked security agencies to sustain their efforts until all the girls were freed and reunited with their families, noting that the president had since then been receiving briefings from the Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, on the negotiation progress.

Yet, the elated atmosphere of the release of the girls has not discountenanced the debate about the circumstance of their freedom amongst the generality of the people, some of whom reckoned the swap deal was in a way trading a part of the authority of the government as a sovereign state.Ī statement by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed that the girls were released in exchange for some Boko Haram suspects, who were hitherto held by the authority. For an administration battling many crises at different fronts, more so at the risk of its goodwill and credibility, the release of the girls provided some respite. Certainly, the release of the girls could not have come at a better time, especially for the government. The excitement that greeted the release of 82 of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, who had been kept in captivity since April 2014, did not undo the debate woven around the circumstance of their freedom. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.A recent swap deal between the federal government and the Boko Haram terrorist sect, which traded detained member of the group for the release of 82 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, is neither strange nor peculiar to Nigeria. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here.

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