{"id":7944,"date":"2016-02-25T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2016-02-25T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:42:39","slug":"shehu-sani-again-says-chibok-girls-can-be-rescued-by-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7944","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Sani Again, says Chibok girls can be rescued by negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If recent reports are anything to go by, the over 200 secondary school girls kidnapped from Chibok over a year ago are still alive. This much was disclosed by Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna central senatorial district, who insisted that the missing Chibok girls will be found, on the grounds that the federal government negotiates with some persons to \u2018extract\u2019 the girls from danger.<\/p>\n

According to Premium Times, Sani, who spoke in Akure, during a symposium held as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of Ondo state on Wednesday, Febryary 24, noted happenings in the country right now reveal that the reign of bloodshed by Boko Haram in the last seven years was strengthened by a few greedy people who profited from the situation.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cSomething that has bothered some of us here in line with the insurgency is, when will the Chibok girls be freed. \u201cSomeone said the Chibok girls will never be free, but I can tell you that they will be free and they are alive. \u201cThere are two ways to get them: the first is to use force to free them and before you apply force, you have to know where they are. You also have to weigh the consequences of raiding the camp with such number of persons, because the insurgents have nothing to lose. \u201cThe second option is to explore ways of extracting them out through negotiation and negotiation is still possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking further, Sani informed that the federal government needs to reach out to some people who may help with the negotiation. According to him, \u201cThere are a few people, not a panel of eminent Nigerians or a panel, there are a few people who the government needs to reach out to.\u201d Sani stated however, that the issue of insurgency is beneficial to some Nigerians who have sabotaged initial efforts to negotiate with the terrorists with a view to resolving the impasse between them and the federal government.<\/p>\n

He lamented that, \u201cthey said they were going to free the girls on the condition we freed their people. And when we came to the negotiating table, and the government said it cannot free the terrorists because they have done a lot of harm. \u201cFor those who have been following events in the last six to seven years, we have seen how some of us from the north, particularly myself, I tried to find an alternative means of addressing the problem of the insurgency. \u201cI took the risk of reaching out to the insurgents and initiating a process of dialogue, about three to four times and it was sabotaged by those who were benefitting from the bloodshed and I think the unfolding events in the country clearly shows to all Nigerians that there were people who see that seven years of bloodshed, of mass murder, of genoc\"boko<\/a>ide as an opportunity for them to amass wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not possible to say that an insurgent group or people not more than two to three thousand have proved so difficult for a nation of 175 million people to crush. \u201cA nation like ours with a reputable armed forces and have performed creditably well in peace keeping missions in Liberia and sierra Leone and Congo and other countries of the world. \u201cIt was so clear that some see it as an opportunity, like the Chinese saying, some people see crisis as a struggle, others see it as an opportunity. \u201cThat is why it dragged on for so long, but I hope with the present administration, at least progress has been made in terms of degrading the capacity and ability of Boko Haram to take up territories.\u201d Only yesterday, Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai secretly met with elders in Borno state. He vowed to ensure that all the Chibok girls are rescued along with all other hostages held by the Boko Haram terrorists, with the freedom of the school girls to be treated as top priority. The COAS also declared that the war against Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) in the northeast has now entered into the mop-up phase.
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If recent reports are anything to go by, the over 200 secondary school girls kidnapped from Chibok over a year ago are still alive. This much was disclosed by Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna central senatorial district, who insisted that the missing Chibok girls will be found, on the grounds that the federal government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1493,1392],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-chibok","tag-senator-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/boko-haram-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-248","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7946,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions\/7946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}