April 2014 from northeast Nigeria in exchange for prisoners.
However, mediator and lawyer, Zannah Mustapha, has revealed a shocking detail saying some of the abducted girls refused to go home, fuelling fears that they have been radicalised by the jihadists, and may feel afraid, ashamed or even too powerful to return to their old lives.
The 57-year-old Mr. Mustapha, who acted as an intermediary in the latest negotiations between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the capital Abuja;
“Some girls refused to return … I have never talked to one of the girls about their reasons,”
“As a mediator, it is not part of my mandate to force them (to return home),”
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