Salkida, a journalist who facilitated the aborted
negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, reportedly told
President Goodluck Jonathan before the deadlock that force could not bring the
abducted girls back alive from the sect’s den.The source who was privy to
Salkida’s meeting in Aso Rock last week said Salkida had already expressed
doubts before he sneaked into the country after the Nigerian government sought
his intervention that the government might not play its role but was
pressurized by several interests wanting an ending to the bloodshed.
The source disclosed to Sharareporters that, “From the beginning, Salkida never wanted
to come because of previous experience but after consultations he made up his
mind and gave conditions which the government complied, of nothing will happen
to him on entry and exit at airport which the President issued a letter of
indemnity.
“On landing, he commenced work and made contacts and at the
end gets position of the sect and also briefed the President the condition the
abducted girls are in. The girls were fine and well fed. It was a dangerous
attempt but as Muslims we believe in Allah we served and everything was smooth
with Salkida in reaching the sect.”
On what transpired in the final meeting last week, the
source said, “The young man told the President that force will not bring the
girls alive, and that the sect too have long list of their members and their
families killed by Nigerian troops. And there is need to have a common ground
so that the girls will be freed and their members too in detention freed as
well. After concluding his own part and assignment he left.”
It would be recalled that at the weekend, it was reported
the Nigerian government had abandoned negotiations with the militant
group. The Nigerian military was also
quoted as saying at the weekend that the location of the girls had been
identified, but that force could not guarantee their return.
“If government were ready for action, the girls would have
started arriving last weekend and the journalist will have come with some of
them as proof,” the source said. “And
the release of their own members too in prisons and many of them under military
and SSS detention.”
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