Stephen
Davis was invited to Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan to help
negotiate the release the Chibok girls who were kidnapped in their
school by the boko haram sect on April 14. Mr. Davis who also
The
63-year-old former Canon Emeritus at Coventry Cathedral in the UK who
has extensive contacts with African terrorist groups was also
responsible for brokering a truce between the Federal Government and
Niger Delta militants in 2004, when he was working for the company
Shell.
He told the ABC he
was only 15 minutes away from retrieving 60 of the kidnapped girls from
insurgents after securing them through negotiations, when they were
snatched by a second rebel group:
'I
made a few phone calls to the Boko Haram commanders and they confirmed
they were in possession of the girls. 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.
There
are several groups to deal with as the girls are held in several camps.
This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable. To attempt to
rescue one group would only endanger the others. Every day there is the
possibility of the release of the girls.
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, Mr Davis. The girls ended up back with their
original captors,’ Davis told ABC.
Davis
also revealed that four of the kidnapped girls managed to successfully
escape their captors and meet their families with the help of a young
man who was formerly kidnapped by the same group.
A
mobile phone that had been hidden in the bra of one of the girls helped
them contact their parents and receive directions to cross the border
from Cameroon back to Nigeria.
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