Internal Differences Among Boko Haram Members Delaying Rescue Of Remaining Chibok Girls – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says internal differences among Boko Haram insurgents is delaying negotiations for the release of remaining Chibok Girls.

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, Boko Haram insurgents abducted 276 female students from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria.

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Some of the girls had regained their freedom while about 100 of them are yet to be released by their abductors.

In a statement issued on Friday by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Mr Buhari told the parents of the schoolgirls to keep their hopes alive as his government is doing all it can to ensure they are re-united with their daughters.

This was part of the commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls.

“We are concerned and aware that it is taking long to bring the rest of our daughters back home, but be assured that this administration is doing its very best to free the girls from their captors,” the statement read.

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“Unfortunately, the negotiations between the government and Boko Haram suffered some unexpected setbacks, owing mainly to a lack of agreement among their abductors, whose internal differences have led to a divergence of voices regarding the outcome of the talks.

“We know that this is not the news parents want to hear after four whole years of waiting, but we want to be as honest as possible with you.

“However, this government is not relenting. We will continue to persist, and the parents should please not give up. Don’t give up hope of seeing our daughters back home again. Don’t lose faith in this government’s ability to fulfill our promise of reuniting you with our daughters. Don’t imagine for a moment that we have forgotten about our daughters or that we consider their freedom a lost course.”

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