President Jonathan Receives New Video Showing Abducted Chibok Girls Pleading For Their Lives

A new report has emerged about theĀ Chibok girls abducted in Borno state on April 14, that President Goodluck Jonathan received a video where the schoolgirls were seen pleading for him to spare their lives, according to UK Telegraph.

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The Boko Haram sects are said to have sent the video to the President by anĀ  intermediary, a Nigerian Journalist, Ahmad Salika in a bid to change the mind of Jonathan concerning his rejection of the original deal to swap the school girls for Boko haram prisoners.

It was yesterday reported that the President changed his mind at the last minute to ā€˜Swap the girlsā€™ after warnings from Western countries at the security summit in Paris.

Apparently theĀ Nigerian Journalist, Ahmad Salika who serves as an intermediary is the only Nigerian Journalist with access to Boko HaramĀ was flown into the country some weeks back by the Nigerian government to facilitate negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram.

Ahmad Salkida who was reported to have told President Goodluck Jonathan that the use of force will not bring back the abducted girls alive from the Insurgentā€™s denĀ obtained the video as a way of proving to Mr Jonathanā€™s office that he had authentic lines of communication to Boko Haramā€™s leaders.

Salkida who left the country two years ago to Dubai for fear of his live after being arrested in the past and associated with the sects as a result of his closeness to them, upon his return back to the country was said to have headed up into the remote bushland areas where the group operate, meeting a senior assistant of Boko Haramā€™s leader, Abubakar Shekau.

The Federal government still in doubt of Salkida asked for a prove, a source said:

ā€œThe government said to the intermediary to prove himself to show whether he was capable of brokering a deal or not, and insisted that he should obtain proof of life of the hostages,ā€ the source said. ā€œSo during his talks with the insurgents, he obtained a DVD which had clips of girls being interviewed by members of the group, in which they asked President Jonathan to do a prisoner swap to get them freed.

ā€œThat DVD was shown to the government, and a deal was arranged so that the girls would have been released a week ago on Monday, but at last minute the government backed out.ā€

The Nigerian government aside pressure from Western countries at the security summit in Paris not to accept the Boko haram terrorists demand to ā€˜Sap the girlsā€™, a source said that they appear to be afraid that ā€œif they do a prisoner swap, they will lose the support of the West.ā€

The source further said, the negotiations had now ā€œcrashedā€, with Mr Salkida returning to Dubai while the DVD remains in the possession of the Nigerian government and has not been released publicly.

Source: Telegraph

4 COMMENTS

  1. Na wa for nigeria force men, arrest Ahmed Salkida 4 a swap with d school girls. From al indication he is one Ćøf the sponsor of book haram. Imagine y do ve 2 travel out so he cn snd them more weapon to them.like wise the senator.

  2. “No matter how,if a truth is buried for decades anytime it is washed ashore,it will be as young as a new born” great Zik of Africa. To consolidate Ayodeji’s quotation,if it is not Northerner’s ‘politicriminology’ how can a hostage escape and there wouldn’t be hell on the retained hostages even video transmission of the torturing measures