Chibok girls: Jonathan’s government swindled of billions of dollars by fake Boko Haram leaders – Presidency

The Federal Government under the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was swindled of billions of dollars in the process of negotiating for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls, the Presidency has said.
The Chibok girls were abducted by members of the dreaded sect, Boko Haram, from their school in Chibok Borno State.
The Presidency said in the process of negotiating for the release of the Chibok girls, who were kidnapped two years ago, some people turned it into a business, promising to negotiate for the release of the girls even when they knew they could not.
The position of the Presidency was made known on a radio programme by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina.
Adesina, who featured on Radio Continental, 102.3 FM on Friday, but with the transcript made available late on Sunday, said some people turned the negotiation for the Chibok girls into a franchise, thus milking the government of billions of dollars.
In answer to a question of if there was any ongoing negotiation for the release of the Chibok girls, Adesina 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.”