FG close to a deal with Boko Haram on release of Chibok school girls

The Federal Government is close to a deal with the deadly Islamist group Boko Haram for the release f over 200 school girls abducted by the group five months ago.
According to reports, the government and Boko Haram representatives have held secret talks sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross and involve the girls’ release in exchange for 18 Boko Haram commanders held in prisons around the country.
The government, which has been bashed in several fronts for tepid actions towards the rescue of the kidnapped girls, has been working underground to secure their release.
It was learnt that the thinking of the government is that such business is best transacted in the most secret manner in order to undue leakages and interference.
The government, it was further learnt, has long resolved not to employ force in the rescue operations because spell dire consequences to the safety of girls.
Apart from the Australian negotiator Dr Davis whose involvement in the resue process is now celebrated, the government had also used some clerics which are known to have the ears of the deadly insurgents.
The Boko Haram kidnapped the girls from their school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, in north-eastern Borno State, on April 14, but some of their cohort managed to escape.
Several groups have emerged since then to prod government to remain committed to the search and rescue of the abducted girls.
Recently, some Northern leaders gave the rescue of the girls as precondition for the region’s support of the re-election ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan.