NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT PAID HUGE RANSOME TO FREE DAPCHI GIRLS – UNITED NATIONS REPORT

Despite the many denials of the Nigerian government that ransom was not paid for the release of the Dapchi girls, the United Nations has confirmed that a splinter Boko Haram group that kidnapped the Dapchi girls in February was paid a “large ransom”. 

The schoolgirls were kidnapped from their school on February 18. One of the girls, Leah Sharibu, has not been released for refusing to convert to Islam. On the March 21st, the Nigerian government announced that the girls and a boy were released after negotiations through a back channel. 

But in a report published on Tuesday by the United Nations said the government told lies about the release of Dapchi girls. Lai Mohammed said the terrorist group only demanded a temporary cessation of hostilities in order to free the girls.

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The government spokesperson said government refused to take the military option so as not to jeopardize the lives of the girls. 

He said: “confrontation would not be the way out as it could endanger the lives of the girls, hence a non-violent approach was the preferred option.” “Within the period when the girls were being brought back, an operational pause was observed in certain areas to ensure free passage and also that lives were not lost,” he added. 

The United Nations has insisted the government paid a ransom. The UN stated that kidnapping for ransom is very prevalence which continues to encourage the activities of terror groups such as Boko Haram and its splinter faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the group which kidnapped the Dapchi schoolgirls.