NIGERIA WON’T NEGOTIATE WITH SHEKAU OVER CHIBOK GIRLS –SENATE!

Senate President, David Mark, made the position of the senate known while speaking in Beijing, China.

Mark specifically dismissed the possibility of President Goodluck Jonathan negotiating with the Boko Haram insurgents for the release of the remaining 234 girls abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State about a month ago.

Leader of the sect, Abubakar Shekau, had on Monday in a video showing the abducted girls for the first time since their abduction vowed that the girls will not be released unless the Federal Government releases members of the group being detained in various detention cells and prisons across the country.

He said, “These are the girls abducted by us that the Nigerian government has been calling for their release. We won’t release them to you and you can’t take them away from us no matter how you tried.

“We would only release them if you, the government releases our brothers you have arrested and detained for four to five years now.”

But the senate president in his reaction to Shekau’ s declaration, told journalists in Beijing that “the federal government would never negotiate with terrorists of which Shekau is one, under whatever circumstance.”

Mark said negotiating with terrorists will not serve any good purpose but would further give them room to wreck more havoc on both the country and its people.

He noted that the insurgents would not respect any terms of agreement that may be entered into with them because there has been no platform of trust whatsoever.

He said, “Nigeria will not negotiate with the terrorists under any circumstance because you don’t negotiate with criminals which Boko Haram insurgents are.

“We are going to bring the girls back safe and sound for their parents without any negotiation with Boko Haram as every effort towards that, which cannot be disclosed in the public is being made to rescue them.”

Mark expressed serious concern about the abduction of the girls like other Nigerians.
He noted that “at the beginning of the insurgency in 2010 or thereabout, government never knew that they had international network with other terror groups of the same mission.”