Don’t swap Chibok girls with Boko Haram prisoners -Okei-Odumakin

The President of the Women Arise for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin on Monday urged the federal government not to accede to the suggestion of swapping the abducted girls from Chibok, Borno State with Boko Haram prisoners. She spoke in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital during a ‘Bring Back Our girls’ protest. She said it was sad that over 200 students of the Government Secondary School who were abducted since April 14 were still languishing in custody of the Boko Haram insurgents. Okei-Odumakin said, “We refuse to give them up. We refuse to surrender them to terrorists and we refuse to surrender them to enemies of progress. “We refuse to exchange our girls for prisoners. On no circumstances should the girls be exchanged for Boko Haram prisoners. “Rather, Shekau should be smoked out and our girls be rescued.” She said the insecurity in some parts of the country has shown that the nation’s security system needed to be overhauled. She also urged the Federal Government to fish out the sponsors of the sect. Odumakin appealed to the Federal Government to compensate the abducted girls and their families. She also advised the government to make it possible for the victims to conclude the WASSCE examination that they were writing before their abduction.