FG prepared to pay for the release of Chibok girls

  President Buhari has said that the federal government is ready to pay for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls if the need arises.

This statement was made in a chat between the special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina and the BBC this Friday.

“Even the president said if it needed paying, Nigeria was ready to pay. He has said that in the public domain before that if they wanted money, Nigeria could even give money,” Adesina said.


Adesina says this is in line with the president’s insistence in doing everything possible to ensure the girls are released without further delay.

“You need to consider these girls have been in captivity for over two years. Their parents have been traumatised, the entire country has been traumatised. The president himself is a father. He put himself in the position of the parents of those girls’’, Adesina said.


President Buhari had earlier announced that the government was ready to dialogue with the sect’s leaders to facilitate the release of the girls.

At the just concluded UN General Assembly, he had invited the UN to mediate talks between the government and the sect for the release of the abducted girls while speaking with UN General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon.