Group Commends Buhari For Bending Down Backward For Boko Haram To Release Chibok Girls

A group known as Buhari Media Support Group (BMSG), has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for going extra mile by engaging in negotiations with Boko Haram insurgents for the purpose of releasing the Chibok School Girls. Twenty one of such girls, kidnapped in April 2014, were let off the hooks by the insurgents today, Thursday.
In a statement signed by its Chairman, Malam Muhammad Labo and Secretary, Cassidy Madueke in Abuja, the group described the “cheering news” as a clear evidence of President Buhari’s pragmatic approach to resolving national challenges.
It stressed that the President has, by this singular act, excited the Nigerian masses by sacrificing the universal doctrine of no negotiation with terrorists for empathy. We specially thank the President for this, even as we acknowledge the efforts of other mediators in the negotiated release of the Chibok girls.
“While congratulating the parents of the released girls, in particular, and Nigerians on the cheery news of the release of the girls, the BMSG observes that the President should be appreciated for subjecting the dictates of sovereignty that limit negotiation of any sorts with terrorists, officially, to the empathy of parenthood and the soft emotions of a father.”
The group said that the manner in which the President has been handling the issue of Chibok Girls has enhanced the confidence of Nigerians in his ability to match his word with action.
“Under 16 months in government, President Buhari has degraded the once dreaded Boko Haram terrorists off Nigerian territory and reduced the once seeming protracted rebellion into a whimper, treacherously seeking out soft targets to register a diminished presence.” [myad]