"No Prisoners, No Chibok Girls" - Boko Haram Threatens FG

The dreaded Boko Haram insurgents have reportedly told the Federal Government of Nigeria that it should forget the over 200 female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, that were abducted by the sect on April 15, 2014, if the FG is not ready to release their sect members who are in prisons across the country.

According to the BBC, a man claiming to be a member of Boko Haram, while speaking in a Hausa Service of the BBC, said that the government is not serious with the rescue of the girls.

The man whose voice was disguised in order to conceal his identity, said he was a teacher or scholar in the sect and joined the group in 2004.

He told the BBC that the girls were in “a state of amnesty”, healthy and eating well, adding that the Christians who refused to convert to Islam were not forced to do so as it is anti-Islamic.

The Boko Haram member maintained that the girls were taken for a specific reason and reiterated the condition for their release, adding that the girls would be released once the federal government met the terrorist group’s demands for a prisoner exchange deal.

Hear him:

Today, if the government releases our members, tomorrow or the next day, we promise you can see all of them. As our leader Abubakar Shekau promised to the media, if the government releases our members, we will release them.

I am telling a fact, they are in a state of amnesty, they don’t have a problem. Some of them have belief in Islam, some of them said they will not convert to Islam, but we did not differentiate. We are not forcing them or putting them under any pressure.

Those who agreed to convert to Islam have been converted and those who refused we left them, we said stay. There is no forced conversion in Islam. Allah commands us to treat everyone equally. We are not differentiating them; we treat all of them equally.

They all are healthy. They are feeding well. If you see them now, you will see that they don’t have any problem.

Under Islam, killing women and children is not acceptable. But if they are fighting you, then you must fight them.

But if they don’t attack you, you leave them. Killing children and women is not accepted at all. We only go after those who give information to our enemy.

But if we bomb somewhere or make arrest somewhere, it will affect them but killing women and children is not accepted.

Do you agree that the FG should release Boko Haram prisoners for the Chibok girls to be released?