Nigerian Boko Haram militants 'seeking prisoner swap to return schoolgirls'
Exclusive: Boko Haram militants plan to use kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as bargaining chips to free comrades rather than kill them, former mediator tells The Telegraph
Members of civil society groups in Abuja protest the abduction of the Chibok school girls Photo: AFP/GETTY
The Nigerian militants suspected of seizing more than 200 schoolgirls hostage
are seeking a prisoner swap for jailed comrades, a former mediator with Boko
Haram has told The Telegraph.
Shehu Sani, right, at a procession in Kaduna to highlight the girls'
plight (@abubakar47i)
Shehu Sani, who brokered face-to-face peace talks with the group, said he
believed that the video in which Boko Haram threatened to sell the girls as "slaves"
was proof that they planned to use them as bargaining chips rather than kill
them.
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