yesterday said the
abducted Chibok school girls were located but it's practically
impossible to rescue them safely.
He also said his county was not advocate for
dialogue with the Boko Haram sect, believed to have abducted the girls
from their hostels last year.
Pocock who visited Kaduna state Governor
Nasir El-Rufa'i made the remarks at an interactive session with journalists.
He said "Our ability to return the Chibok girls is very limited. Well,
after the abduction for some months it was clear that substantial
group of girls were together.
It was also clear that they were by no means all of them. It might be
a group of 50 or 80; it's very hard to tell.
It presented a terrible dilemma to everybody,
attempting to rescue substantial group of girls has two obvious
problems; the risk to the attackers and to the girls."
He said "It was possible that Boko Haram would have killed those
girls. And I am not sure whether the military capacity existed for the
rescue of these girls.
So even though it was possible to say where
some of the girls might have been, they were
beyond rescue in practical terms. I think the only way for the return
of the girls in my personal opinion is through the defeat of Boko
Haram."
He said deployment of security forces to the
North-East to deal with insurgency was not
enough adding that government must apply
economic measures.
The High Commissioner said it was not a better option to invoke
dialogue with sect because they didn't constitute a legitimate
government.
"I don't think we will advocate talking to people that abduct innocent
civilians and cut peoples throat on video and show it to the rest of
the world.
he added.:
But what we could be talking about is disarmament and rehabilitation
process for those who are willing to put down their weapons," pc ads bottom