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    Nigeria must negotiate release of 195 Chibok girls – BBOG

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorApril 4, 2017No Comments2 Mins Read
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    FILE PHOTO: BBOG campaigner, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed arrives Yola on a two-day search for missing Chibok girls
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    FILE PHOTO: BBOG campaigner, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed arrived at Yola to embark a two-day search for missing Chibok girls

    The Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, movement says Nigeria’s government must speedily negotiate the release of 195 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists nearly three years ago.

    The movement also asked Tuesday why two dozen Chibok girls who were freed last year have been held for months of alleged rehabilitation instead of being reunited with their families.

    Bring Back Our Girls says Nigeria’s government has failed to respond to its questions and suggestions laid out in a January letter.

    Nigerian officials did not comment Tuesday.

    Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped on the night of 14–15 April 2014 from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

    Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, an extremist and terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria.

    Of the 276 female students kidnapped 57 of the schoolgirls managed to escape over the next few months and some have described their capture in appearances at international human rights conferences.

    A child born to one of the girls and believed by medical personnel to be about 20 months old also was released, according to the Nigerian president’s office.

    Since then hopes were raised on various occasions that the 219 remaining girls might be released.

    Newspaper reports suggested that Boko Haram was hoping to use the girls as a negotiating pawns in exchange for some of their commanders in jail.

    In May 2016, one of the missing girls, Amina Ali, was found. She claimed that the remaining girls were still there, but that six had died.

    A second girl was discovered later in the week, but parents have expressed doubts as her name is not among those originally missing.

    A further 21 girls were freed in October 2016, while another was rescued the next month.

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