Video Of The Missing Chibok Girls Begging For Prisoner Swap?

According to reports from The Telegraph, President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly received a video of the girls begging for prisoner swap. Read report; Nigeria’s president was sent a new video of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in which they beg him to spare their lives through a prisoner swap, sources close to the militia have told The Telegraph. The video was said to have been handed to Goodluck Jonathan’s office by an intermediary who started a dialogue with the group two weeks ago. The intermediary, a Nigerian journalist, obtained the video as a way of proving to Mr Jonathan’s office that he had authentic lines of communication to Boko Haram’s leaders. However, the source claimed that a subsequent deal to release the girls – planned for a week ago on Monday – was scrapped after Western governments placed pressure on Mr Jonathan not to negotiate for any prisoner swap. The deal would allegedly have seen around 50 of the girls released in exchange for an equivalent number of Boko Haram fighters currently in Nigerian jails. The Nigerian government has denied that any deal was on the table, and has so far neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the video. Claims of the video’s existence surfaced as Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff claimed that the military now knew where the girls were located. Speaking on Monday, Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh, described it as “good news for the parents” but said that the military would not risk “going there with force”.

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