FG delegation leaves for Chad to hold talks with Boko Haram

Information reaching us suggests that the federal government negotiating team may have headed for the Chadian capital, N’djamena in continuation of its negotiation with representatives of Boko Haram insurgents, a Thisday report said.
According to the report, the team’s priority is the release of the abducted Chibok school girls and cessation of hostilities.
we recalls that Nigerian authorities last Friday announced that it had entered into a ceasefire agreement with the sect; an agreement it said will facilitate the release of the over 200 school girls abducted from their hostels in Chibok since April this year.
Shortly after this announcement, the Principal Private Secretary to the President, Ambassador Hassan Tukur and the coordinator of the National Information Centre, Mr. Mike Omeri said negotiations with the sect will continue this week. The Negotiation was brokered by the Chadian President, Idriss Derby, with Cameroonian official present.
Though the ceasefire has been violated with attacks on towns and villages in Borno and Adamawa States, the federal government seems determined to continue with the talks.
“The federal government is sticking to the ceasefire agreement despite the efforts of some mischievous elements to derail the plan. We can only determine if there is need to cancel the agreement or go on with the negotiations when we meet the sect. But we cannot just take a hasty decision based on sporadic attacks whose sources or actors have not been verified,” a source in the presidency said.
The source, according to the paper, further confirmed that a team from the federal government had left for Chad to hold negotiations with the sect, but declined to disclose the names of the government officials or the government’s representatives on the team.