Mother’s plea: Swap captive girls for Boko Haram militants

“They must, therefore, come forward and tell us where the group is keeping the Chibok Girls and other abducted persons to enable us to rescue them”, it said in the statement, which was signed by Colonel Sani K. Usman, the Acting Director of Army Public Relations.

Esther Yakubu is furious at what she sees as a lack of action by successive Nigerian governments to secure the release of her daughter and the rest of the girls.

According to reports, the lawyer was relieved of her passport by a supervisor, who promised to return it ten minutes later.

“I read the statement that was released by the federal government, and I’m wondering how a government could release that kind of statement two years and four months after young women, who went to school, were taken away”.

The front desk officers, she said, asked her what she wanted and she told them she was declared wanted yesterday (Sunday).

The masked man said claimed that almost 40 of the girls have been married off and demanded the release of prisoners in return for the setting the girls free.

Recall that on Sunday, the army declared Salkida alongside two others wanted for their alleged ties to Boko Haram sect.

He said, “The offer by Salkida to mediate in the aftermath of the video release is a move to place him in the good books of the federal government knowing that he has been an accomplice to terror all along”.

It is finally becoming clearer that Boko Haram has taken a hit from Nigeria’s military, a bad hit.

Let me say again, release our people and we release your girls, otherwise, they will never be released. “Now I see her and I know she’s OK”.

The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok provoked global outrage and brought unprecedented attention to Boko Haram and its bloody quest to create a fundamentalist state in northeastern Nigeria.

Unfortunately, the Boko Haram message also “shows what appears to be several dead and injured girls strewn across the ground”. Nigerian security knows me too well, I’m not shady.

Esther Yakubu, left, mother of one of the kidnapped school girls, watches a video released by Boko Haram during a briefing in Abuja, Nigeria. “Boko Haram is attempting to paint the military campaign against the jihadists as a failure”, the BBC ventures.

Mohammed said the government appreciates the role played by Bring Back Our Girls Movement, but said a lot needs to be done behind the scenes.

“Clearly, my status as a Nigerian journalist who has reported extensively, painstakingly and consistently on the Boko Haram menace in the country since 2006 is an open book known to Nigerians and the worldwide community”.

Stating his readiness to return home to face the military, Salkida wrote on his Twitter handle, that he has stayed “within the creed of professional journalism”, in all his work and extensive coverage of Boko Haram insurgency since 2006.