Femi Falana
Lagos Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) is of the opinion that government should not exchange the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, for the sect’s prisoners.
The exchange is among the demands of the sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a new video released yesterday to the public.
Mr Falana said the abducted girls are not prisoners of war, adding that they were illegally abducted from their school.
The frontline lawyer spoke to reporters yesterday in Abuja after a meeting with some protesting women.
He said arrangements were being made to enable parents identify the missing girls in the video.
The human rights lawyer said: “It is very disturbing that these criminals called Boko Haram members are demanding that these girls be exchanged for prisoners.
“This is terrible because our girls are not prisoners of war. They were illegally abducted and they are not Nigerian soldiers. So, there is no basis for the demand.
“On the video: what we have tried to do is to get the parents of these abducted girls to see if they can identify their daughters in the video. Arrangements are being made to do that.
“What is important is that the global pressure is paying off and that is why this cowardly organisation has come out to assure the world that the children are safe and that they have not killed them.”
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