The Department of State Services,
DSS, has revealed that Boko Paramedics, prior to the release of the Dapchi
schoolgirls demanded “cessation of hostilities and temporary ceasefire”.
DSS Director General, Lawal Daura
made the disclosure while revealing the role of the secret police in securing
the release of the girls.
He spoke when President Muhammadu
Buhari received the released girls at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to Daura, the process
of negotiating the process of the girls’ release was complicated and
painstaking.
He said, “However, before you
today, Mr. President, are two additional young primary school pupils, namely
Hafsat Haruna, an 11-year-old primary six pupil, and Mala Maina Bukar, 13 years
old and also a primary six pupil.
“The remaining six Dapchi girls
are yet to be accounted for, and dialogue on these students is still ongoing.
“It may be recalled that the
President had given a clear directive to security agencies to use peaceful
options to ensure the timely and safe release of the girls.
“What followed were intense
behind-the-scene dialogue spearheaded by the Department of State Services.
“The insurgents’ only condition
was their demands for cessation of hostilities and temporary ceasefire to
enable them return the girls at the point they picked them.
“They required assurances that
the government security forces would keep to this.
“The exercise was arduous and
quite challenging. The sensitivity of the operation and some uncertainties
surrounding it, particularly the routes to be used, nature of transportation,
realization and concern that the girls were not kept at one place, issues of
encountering military checkpoints within the theater and indeed keeping the
operation on strictly the “principles of need-to-know” made the whole exercise
more complicating.
“Beyond the release of the
abducted girls, our primary interest for engaging in the dialogue was informed
by the following: permanent possible cessation of hostilities, discussing the
fate of the arrested insurgents and innocent Nigerian citizens being held
hostage, and possibility of granting amnesty to repentant insurgents.
“These presently seem problematic
because the insurgents are factionalised while holding various spheres of
influence in their guerrilla controlled enclaves.”
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