A former military administrator of Gombe and Ekiti states, retired Col. Inuwa Bawa, has advised the federal government to be ‘extremely cautious’ about swapping some Boko Haram fighters for the Chibok girls abducted over two years ago.
The former military administrator, Col. Bawa, who spoke on the issue, said as an ex-intelligence officer in the military, his advise to the Buhari administration was to remember that a terrorist sect such as Boko Haram could not be trusted to act honourably.
The first question to ask is how genuine is the faction the Federal Government is thinking of negotiating with? How do you know that if you release the Boko Haram fighters, they will release the girls intact? And supposing you release the fighters, how are we sure that the insurgents will not commit a more serious abduction in the near future?” he said.
Col. Bawa said the Bring Back our Girls campaign and other individuals putting pressure on President Buhari to swap the insurgents for the girls lack the workings of an intelligence operations, stressing, “I am not saying we should not get the girls back.
We want them back but even if the military locates where the girls are, they must take so many things into consideration and utmost is the girls’ safety because if anything bad is to happen, those who are putting pressure on the government to rescue the girls will be the same people accusing the government of rushing in without weighing all the options.”
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