The Federal Government of Nigeria has opted for negotiation with the Boko Haram insurgents to rescue both the remaining schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014 from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State and those recently abducted at Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.
President Muhammadu Buhari said that negotiation was chosen above military option.
He said that Nigeria preferred to have schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok and Dapchi back alive.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) had deployed air assets, including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms in the North-East with a view to locating and facilitating the rescue of the 110 girls abducted in Dapchi.
Buhari added that Nigeria was working in concert with international organisations and negotiators, to ensure that the girls were released unharmed by their captors.
“We are trying to be careful. It is better to get our daughters back alive,” the President said. The President spoke yesterday when he received the United States of America Secretary of State, Mr. Rex Tillerson, at the presidential villa, Abuja.