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Nigeria’s President Buhari is ‘open’ to negotiations with Boko Haram
Nigeria has no concrete evidence on the location or the condition of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram past year, President Muhammadu Buhari said late Wednesday.
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Boko Haram militants seized the girls from their school dormitories in the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014.
“We want to be sure that they (the girls) are complete, safe” before holding any talks, he added.
“We are looking for a credible Boko Haram leadership that will confirm that the girls are alive”, the president said.
Boko Haram, a militant group, which has since 2009 waged a campaign of violence in Nigeria in an effort to establish an Islamic state, is suspected to be responsible for these series of blasts.
In an apparent response to the announcement of their defeat, suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the biggest city in the northeast, Maiduguri, with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombings that killed about 50 people on Sunday night and early Monday morning.
The human rights lawyer expressed concern that if unchecked, President Buhari may drag Nigeria towards dictatorship.
It said the United States had provided various forms of support for Nigeria and its neighbours in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.
Numerous suicide attacks have been carried out by women and girls forced to wear explosives under loose-fitting clothing and Buhari was asked about plans to ban the Muslim hijab head scarf worn by women.
If that number of displaced Nigerians were a country, they would be Africa’s 42nd largest nation, bigger even than Namibia, Botswana, and The Gambia.
It noted that its implementation also reinforces President Buhari’s credibility, saying that it also reassures Nigerians on the new administration’s war against corruption. Slumping prices of oil, the country’s top source of state revenue, have also led to a continuous deceleration of economic growth.
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Mr Buhari added that “productive industries” – such as manufacturers – should be identified and allocated foreign exchange to pay for “essential materials” rather than to “those who want to import rice and toothpicks”.