Ceasefire: Boko Haram To Release 218 Chibok Girls Monday

There are strong indications that the 218
schoolgirls abducted six months ago in
Chibok, Borno State, by the violent Boko
Haram sect may be released on Monday.
The Federal Government, through the
Nigerian military, had on Friday said that it
had agreed to a ceasefire with the violent
sect and that the Chibok girls would soon be
released. And now according to a new report
on PUNCH, the President’s Principal
Secretary, Hassan Tukur, told BBC Focus on
Africa that an agreement to end the Boko
Haram hostilities had been reached after one
month of negotiations in Saudi Arabia. The
negotiation was said to have been headed by
the Chadian President Idriss Deby.
Tukur said Boko Haram announced a
unilateral ceasefire on Thursday and the
government had responded. He said:
“The Boko Haram members have assured us
that they have the girls and that they will
release them. I am cautiously optimistic.”
Tukur and Danladi Ahmadu, who calls
himself the Secretary-General of Boko
Haram, told VOA’s Hausa-language service
that the abducted girls would be released on
Monday in Chad.
The girls are alive and “in good condition and
unharmed,” Ahmadu said.