Representatives of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents may have
submitted a list of its men it wants the Federal Government to release
in exchange for the abducted school girls seized at the Government
Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State in April, a Punch report said.
The process of verification of the status of the men on the list has
also started, the report quoted a security source as saying.
This
verification is to ascertain the state of health of the Boko Haram
men. The source, according to the report, claims that the on-going
talks with representatives of the insurgents in the Chadian capital have
witnessed great progress, claiming there had been other meetings at
three different locations held in the spirit of the ongoing peace deal.
He
dismissed fears that the insurgents may decide to back out of the
negotiations because of recent confrontations with security forces.