Pogu Bitrus just made known to the world that more than 100 girls (114 to be precise) do not want to go back to their parents.

I can understand that they have children and/or are pregnant, that they are ashamed or that their “husbands” do not want to let them go.

The fact that they do not want to go back to Chibok DOES NOT MEAN, however, that they do not want to be rescued and out of the grip of Boko Haram.

I notice that ONLY the group of Al-Barnawi releases hostages or is ready to do so.

NO-ONE will potentially be released by Shekau, although he said more than once that he wanted to free them if they would be swapped with BH members.

In August or September Dorcas Yakubu (who is held by Shekau I assume, because it was a YouTube film by his group) begged the FG to free her and her friends.

But now all of a sudden there is not one single girl who is being held by Shekau who wants to be rescued!!!!!!!!

Something is not right here. Something really stinks.

I hope the FG does not give up on the ones “who want to stay”. Believe me, not more than a couple of girls, if any, are radicalized. Nigerian Christians do not radicalize in such massive numbers.

I cannot understand that the Kibaku Area Development Association and others who should do everything possible to get EVERYONE back not only buy that crap but moreover spread it in the international press.

Strange people the Africans. Rapists, child molesters, pedophile "pastors", wife beaters, cheaters, LovePeddler runners etc. etc. are all accepted, but someone who is probably a caring and friendly person is crucified. She is born like that. Perhaps she would have preferred otherwise, perhaps not. She will be accepted by God as his beloved daughter. As for the other ones, I am not sure but I surely hope not. And no, I am not gay. Sad that colonialists took everything from Africa in exchange for backward thoughts. Start attacking all the fake prophets and pastors who prey on vulnerable people to rape and sell their daughters into prostitution. But as someone on this forum said, as long as the girl sends enough money home, no one cares if she's raped twenty or more times a day in Italy, the land of milk and honey but not for naija girls.

How many slaughtered girls and young women will they find in the "liberated" towns? How many girls have first been kidnapped, then raped and tortured and finally murdered? Many of these victims whose life ended before it started could have been saved if the Goodluck administration had acted instead of being totally indifferent. This is bordering genocide. Now the European Union wants to help save the Chibok girls. Ridiculous and stomach-turning! Months ago, a Northerner with intimate knowledge of Boko Haram already wrote "I hope we will not find the Chibok girls in a mass grave". I thought he was exaggerating.

Funny how they change "r*pe" in molest on this forum. Apparently you can do it, but you cannot write it. Fake just like the entire society.

Is that good news? They free the older women and (gang)rape the young girls, sometimes even to death. I thought Nigeria wanted to strengthen its rape laws, but hundreds if not thousands of underage girls are raped on a daily basis in the North and nothing at all is done about it. People are not even moved by the fate of all these girls whose life is over even if they make it out alive. Not politicians, not the army, not even the normal citizens. Arsenalk and Liverpool and mobile phones and nollywood are way more important. Despicable and deplorable.

FG is not negotiating with Boko Haram. What representative of BH would say that all Chibok girls are alive, in good health and none have been abused. Since April media keep saying that at least several died of snakebite, good health after 6 months in captivity doesn't seem logical and about rape and abuse we don't need to talk. Everyone knows what happens to them and the many girls who managed to escape or were set free in the past were all raped and tortured. The stupid thing is that all media - both Nigerian and foreign - print that statement of the so-called BH spokesman. That statement alone proves that BH is not involved in any talks.

Crap. Vendetta time under the cover of arresting Boko Haram people. Soon they will have more BH "insurgents" in the South than in the North.

"Negotiations are not taking place in Saudi-Arabia, but in Chad. Makes sense, since BH is heavily sponsored by Chad. Since the beginning, I have been thinking that most of the girls who are still alive must be on one or several islands in Lake Chad. That's the most obvious place to keep them, not Sambisa or Cameroon and definitely not Niger. If Americans really would have used drones and looked for the girls, which they obviously didn't, and neither did the UK, France or Nigeria, they should have looked there first. Sad and incomprehensible that not one single rescue operatiopn took place, probably not even reconnaissance flights. Just talking and lying and giving people false hope for 6 months now. That's heartless and despicable.

Around the end of July it was widely speculated - due to the physical resemblance - that one of the suicide bombers was Chibok schoolgirl Naomi Adamu. Since then I have heard nor read anything further about this. Today I stumble upon a website where a Nigerian-born human rights lawyer who lives in the US, Emmanuel Ogebe, cllaims the following and I quote the article:

"Terrorist group Boko Haram used at least one of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls as a suicide bomber, a Nigerian human rights lawyer confirmed Thursday at a congressional hearing on international religious freedom.
After a monthlong investigation, Emmanuel Ogebe has “positively identified one of the remains recovered from the site of a school bombing as that of an abducted Chibok schoolgirl,” he wrote in a testimony submitted to the House Subcommittee on National Security. Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls after raiding their school in April. A month later, it claimed all the girls had converted to Islam. Many speculated the terrorist group turned the girls into bombers after a string of suicide bombings by young women in northern Nigeria."

The link to the article is : http://www.worldmag.com/2014/09/boko_haram_used_schoolgirl_as_suicide_bomber

Does anyone have more information on this? Has an investigation been carried out, have DNA samples been taken. Has something been made public in the meantime that we in Europe are not aware of?

I pray it is not true.

Every day girls are being abducted by Boko Haram. Now 50 in Gulak and many more in other places. The Chibok girls are probably lost and many will be dead. Who will stop that? Unbelievable in 2014 that no-one seriously intervenes! Does the FG not care when thousands of girls and young women are gang-r*ped on a daily basis? Are they not human beings? Northerners or Southerners, Muslims or Christians. Who cares. Their lives are destroyed even if they survive this ordeal. Nigerians raise your voice, please.

See the link.

http://africanspotlight.com/2014/09/14/boko-haram-kidnaps-50-women-gulak/

According to Reuters and BBC and many others Bama is in the hands of Boko Haram. How is it possible that the Nigerian Army does not manage to beat those guys once and for ever? They have perhaps 5000 fighters altogether.

200 Boko militants cannot be wiped out....? Give me a break.

Stephen Davis is a well-known Australian mediator who was in Nigeria for 4 months trying to rescue the Chibok girls. For all those who say it is a scam, read this. The outlook is very very bleak. In fact there is no hope for the girls. 4 months of torture and rape and no way out. The article I post appeared today in several Australian media.

"Australian Stephen Davis risked life in attempt to rescue kidnapped Nigerian girls

A Perth-based international adviser has survived months of extreme danger to try to rescue more than 270 schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Stephen Davis, 63, has returned from a four-month sojourn with rare footage of the intense fighting in Nigeria's north-east, as Boko Haram stepped up efforts to establish an Islamic state.
Dr Davis, who has a PhD in political geography, has worked as an adviser to the past two presidents of Nigeria.
He established extensive contacts with tribes and terrorist groups in Africa, including three small cells of Al Qaeda, while working as a trouble-shooter for oil and gas company Shell in the Niger delta.
When news broke in April about the girls' kidnapping from a school in the village of Chibok, near the Cameroon border, Dr Davis, who had recently moved to Perth from London, decided he could not sit on his hands.
During the journey his life was threatened more than once, but his Australian passport saved him.
"When confronted by groups with an AK-47 in my face they'd say, 'you are American, we have to kill you'," Dr Davis said.
"When you say, no I'm not American, they think you are British, and say you will still die, but when I said I'm Australian, they said that's all right.

"I have no idea why but it's certainly been helpful."
The devout Christian managed to smuggle out of the country footage of a handful of schoolgirls who escaped from Boko Haram.
They detail the atrocities they endured, including being raped almost on a daily basis.

Release agreed as 'goodwill' gesture
Following media reports that nobody knew where the girls were, he decided to reach out to his contacts.
"I made a few phone calls to the Boko Haram commanders and they confirmed they were in possession of the girls," he said.
"They told me they'd be prepared to release some as a goodwill gesture towards a peace deal with the government, so I went to Nigeria on the basis of being able to secure their release."
Arriving in Nigeria, Dr Davis quickly set up talks with commanders and he believed he had brokered a deal.
Fearing being arrested, the Boko Haram commanders - holding the girls across the border in Cameroon - had a list of conditions.
They wanted the military stood down and promised to drop the girls in a village before phoning to give their exact location.
Dr Davis said they lived up to their promise, but in a country ravaged by war and corruption, the rescue was sabotaged.
"The girls were there, 60 girls, there were 20 vehicles with girls," he said.
"We travelled for four-and-a-half hours to reach them, but 15 minutes before we arrived they were kidnapped again by another group who wanted to cash in on a reward.
"The police had offered a reward of several million Naira just 24 hours before we went to pick them up.
"I understand, from the Boko Haram commanders I spoke to, the girls eventually ended up back with them.
"I don't know what happened to the group that took them but I suspect it wasn't good."

Four girls escaped by heading west

Dr Davis said a young man kidnapped by Boko Haram and used as a driver later helped a handful of girls escape.
One kidnapped girl, who managed to avoid having her mobile phone confiscated by turning it off and hiding it in her bra, managed to call her family while hiding in bushes, but had no idea where she was or which direction she should be heading.
After being told to walk west by following the sunset each evening the four girls managed to cross the border from Cameroon and into Nigeria before being reunited with their families.
So far they are the only girls to have escaped from a Boko Haram camp.
When Dr Davis later tried to contact, via text, the young man who helped them, he received a sobering reply.
"The person you are trying to contact has gone on a journey from which there is no return," the reply read.
"He was an infidel."

Dr Davis said the longer he stayed in Nigeria the more it dawned on him the kidnappings would not end.
"It became very clear that if I was able to get 50 girls released then another group would kidnap 70 or 80 more," he said.
"So by freeing 50 you were consigning 70 or 80 more to the same fate."

Atrocities going unreported
Dr Davis said initially journalists from around the world including CNN, the ABC and the BBC flooded into the country, but they concluded it was far too dangerous to send any crews into the north-east of the country.
He said since then, the violence in north-east Nigeria and the threat of foreign journalists being kidnapped and beheaded meant there had been limited coverage of the crimes being committed by Boko Haram.
"Boko Haram used to telephone Nigerian journalists and give them a story, but that doesn't happen anymore," he said.
"They go straight to social media. They post their own material and they've learnt to become very savvy on social media and use it as an instrument to terrorise."

Dr Davis said he had realised the only way to stop the kidnappings was to stop the sponsors of Boko Haram.
While Al Qaeda was involved in training Boko Haram recruits, Dr Davis said one of their major sources of funding - aside from raiding banks - was Nigerian politicians.
"That makes it easier in some ways as they can be arrested, but of course the onus of proof is high and many are in opposition, so if the president moves against them, he would be accused of trying to rig the elections due early next year," he said.
"So I think this will run through to the election unabated.
"These politicians think that if they win power they can turn these terrorists off, but this has mutated.
"It's no longer a case of Muslims purifying by killing off Christians. They are just killing indiscriminately, beheading, disembowelling people - men, women and children and whole villages.
"I would say it's almost beyond the control of the political sponsors now.
"Terror groups are linking up in Somalia, southern Sudan, Egypt and we have fairly strong evidence they are talking with ISIS members.
"They will link up with ISIS and Al Shabaab and I think that what we are seeing in that region is the new homeland of radical Islam in the world."