PHOTOS: Released Chibok girls’ parents arrive Abuja AND BBC SAYS Nigerian Government paid 2 million euros for release of Chibok girls -

The parents of the 82 Chibok schoolgirls who were released after being held for more than three years by Boko Haram, are currently in Abuja where they will be reuniting with the family.

Recall that Nigeria's  Minister for Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan, had on May 11 promised that the students’ parents will travel from the remote northeastern town in Borno state to meet their daughters in the capital, Abuja.

It was all tears of joy today as the recently released 82 Chibok school girls met their parents in Abuja. It was their first meeting after three years of captivity. Watch the emotional videos from their meeting abeg

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It seems the release of the Chibok girls, didn't come with just swapping Boko Haram prisoners, as BBC claims that the Nigerian Government paid the terrorists, 2 million euros and also released 5 senior Boko Haram militants. 

Here's BBC's report;

"The details of the deal are sketchy. Our sources don’t want to be named and their version of events is hard to confirm, but they say the men were high-level Boko Haram bomb-makers, and that they were accompanied by two million euros in cash.

Paying a ransom as well as swapping prisoners was a sticking point that almost unravelled the whole deal, one source tells us. President Buhari has not revealed if a ransom was paid

It should have happened sooner, but the president was hesitating about freeing the five – and especially about the money,” says the person with detailed knowledge of the deal.
Persuading him was “very, very difficult. It was the most difficult part of the whole negotiation. He didn’t want to pay any money.

The ransom was two million euros. Boko Haram asked for euros. They chose the suspects and they gave us the list of girls who would be freed.”Governments rarely admit to paying a ransom, and this claim could not be independently verified."

Reaching that point took a lot of time and there were many setbacks, but trust was gradually built on both sides. The Nigerian army’s surge of military success helped strengthen the government’s hand."