"FG should accept Boko Haram’s conditions"

As tension continues to mount in the country, following the continued retention of over 200 female students kidnapped from Chibok, Borno State by the Boko Haram sect, an elders statesman and a delegate at the ongoing national conference in Abuja, Kunle Olajide, has advised the Federal Government to accept the sect’s conditions for the release of the girls. Members of the terrorist group had, last month, asked the Federal Government to release their members in various prisons across the country as a condition for the release of the abducted students. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday, Olajide, who is the also publicity secretary of the Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF) and a member of the Social Sector Committee at the ongoing confab, said no sacrifice was too great to make to secure the release of the schoolgirls. He added, however, that the Federal Government should secure the biometric date of the Boko Haram members to be released in exchange for the girls, as this would enable it to trace them in case of any future attacks by the sect. According to the medical practitioner, “Chibok is a product of many years of misgovernance and misrule, misapplication of resources, wastage and corruption. “But as far as I am concerned, the country should be prepared to swap the most-hardened criminal for the release of these innocent girls to their families. “Boko Haram members are known and government has negotiated with them before. “I want to say that some of the Northern leaders know them, because none of them have come out to condemn the sect,” he said.