Nigeria: Abducted Chibok School Girls - Time to Negotiate

The media last week was awash with reports of a breakthrough in the search for the over 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents in April. The reports quoting senior military and government officials stated that the country's Special Forces from the Army's 7th Division located in Maiduguri had sighted and narrowed the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls to three Boko Haram camps in Madayi, Dogon Chuku and Meri, around the Lake Chad. According to military sources "our team first sighted the girls on April 26 and we have been following their movement with the terrorists ever since".

We are indeed encouraged by this progress in the search for the abducted schoolgirls. Coming at a trying time for President Goodluck Jonathan's administration and the military, both of who have received a lot of knocks from many Nigerians on the handling of the missing school girls case, it shows that the government is indeed working hard to ensure the school girls are rescued.

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