A report released by
the BBC has claimed that the Federal Government paid the sum of two million
euros to Boko Haram to secure the release of the 82 school girls abducted by
the Islamic terrorist group in 2014 in Chibok, Borno State.
The report
also disclosed that the five Boko Haram Commanders who were swapped for the
girls alongside the alleged sum were specialist in bomb making.
In this new report by BBC, it is alleged that 2
million euros was released in exchange for the girls. Part of the report
reads:
"The release of the 82 girls came with a price. Five senior
Boko Haram militants were moved from a high security unit to be driven to
freedom. The details of the deal are sketchy. Our sources don’t want to be
named and their version of events is hard to confirm, but they say the men were
high-level Boko Haram bomb-makers, and that they were accompanied by two
million euros in cash. Paying a ransom as well as swapping prisoners was a
sticking point that almost unravelled the whole deal, one source tells us. It
should have happened sooner, but the president was hesitating about freeing the
five – and especially about the money,” says the person with detailed knowledge
of the deal. Persuading him was “very, very difficult. It was the most
difficult part of the whole negotiation. He didn’t want to pay any money. “The
ransom was two million euros. Boko Haram asked for euros. They chose the
suspects and they gave us the list of girls who would be freed.”
Read the full report bbc.co.uk/chibok_girls
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