Australian Boko Haram negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davis, blames opposition politicians of delaying the freedom and release of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Islamist sect in April this year.
Stephen Davis claimed two Nigerians, Senator Modu Sherrif, ex-governor of Borno State and former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika in sponsoring Boko Haram less than two month ago.
Australian alarmed that if the girls are set free without the leaders of Boko Haram either reined in or their sponsors stopped, Nigeria should expect an endless orgy of kidnappings by the same group in future.
Davis told to a UK news network: The Nigerian opposition politicians sponsoring Boko Haram have to be stopped if hundreds of local girls are to be saved.
The reliability of the statement given to Davis was a sign that international support for his accusations is rapidly gaining acceptance.
He demanded to have been frustrated by a number of unsuccessful tries to secure the kidnapped girls’ release, and supposed that from the Nigerian media, he saw an undeniable connection between the Chibok girls’ fate and cutting off the funding that is Boko Haram’s lifeblood.
Dr. Stephen Davis indicated the role some “senior politicians of a major opposition party are playing in channeling money from Al Qaeda to Boko Haram.”
He said that “these individuals are bank-rolling the group’s brutal activities to create instability ahead of the February 2015 Nigerian general election. There would be an endless cycle of evil if the Chibok girls are freed without the group’s sponsors being stopped. It would simply lead to many more young women being taken in their place.”
It was expected that Boko Haram sect released over 200 abducted Chibok girls who were taken 6 months ago last Tuesday as the Federal Government and the sect made a ceasefire agreement on October 17.
But parents of the schoolgirls are still hopefully waiting that their daughters will return back home.
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