Posted on: 09:33 Tue, 12 Jan 2016



The Special Adviser to the President on
Media and Publicity matter, Mr. Femi
Adesina, in an interview on Radio
Continental 102.3 FM said the former
administration was swindled off of
millions of dollars by those
masquerading to be leaders of Boko
Haram when former Pres. Jonathan’s
administration tried to secure the
release of the kidnapped Chibok girls.

He said:

“We need to know a little bit of what
happened behind the scenes, between
the last government and some people
masquerading as the leadership of
Boko Haram who wanted to get the
Chibok girls released”.

“They actually turned it into a
franchise, it became a commercial
thing and they got money, possibly in
millions of dollars, only for
government to discover it had been
swindled. They kept saying they could
get the girls released , they could
interface with Boko Haram and they
went smiling to the bank with all that
money, and nothing happened”.

“So you should understand why this
government is being careful and the
President has said the genuineness of
the leadership of Boko Haram must
be determined before any
negotiation takes place”.