Cease-fire: No Talks Are Ongoing - Journalist With Access To Boko Haram Reveals

Nigerian journalist and activist known to have long-standing connections to the Boko Haram insurgents, Ahmed Salkida, has claimed that the Federal government is suppressing information from the people concerning the ceasefire deal it said to have agreed with the terrorist group.

Nigerian journalist and activist Ahmad Salkida

Salkida states on his Twitter account that previous investigation into the deal show that nothing has been done exactly to guarantee safety in Nigeria’s northeast.

He tweeted “My journalistic investigations on ‘negotiations’ (based on snapshots and several accounts I just received from sources), suggest and indeed clearly point in different direction from what the FG is insisting.”
My journalistic investigatns on ‘negotiations’ (based on snapshots & several accounts I just received frm sources), suggest and indeed ~

Salkida admitted the role that “politics, ego, and rivalry” have commonly held in cases like this.  He condemned the gross misinformation being put forward by the Nigerian federal government, especially regarding the release of the Chibok schoolgirls, abducted in April. The FG recently ensured the nation that according to ceasefire agreement the Chibok girls would safely returned after nearly 200 days of captivity.  

He tweeted, “Since what we are dealing with has to do with human lives and livelihoods, let us get this right for once.”

“The girls and many other captives, according to decade-long sources ‘have not been moved an inch and no talks [are] ongoing.’”

~ of most our leadrs in Nigeria but since what we r dealing with has to do with human lives & livelihoods, let us get this right for once ~

 ~ the girls & many other captives, according to decade-long-sources said, “have not been moved an inch & NO talks is ongoing.” ~

Salkida’s claims follow series of reports of kidnappings and violence since the ceasefire deal was reportedly reached on October 18.
The journalist also said that the captives haven’t been raped by Boko Haram as a Human Rights Watch report said. The information he got from someBoko Haram members.

Also significant was the denial that captives have been raped by Boko Haram, according to some of the group’s members that spoke with Salkida. The report, titled “Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp’: Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in Northeast Nigeria”, is based on the witness of 46 victims of kidnappings in Brono, Yobe, and Adamawa States.

Salkida states that Boko Haram leaders reject that any sexual attack happened, saying: “Boko Haram leadership insist people will say whatever they like but whoever rapes even an enemy will be punished as prescribed in Islam.”
On rape: BH leadrship insist ppl will say whatever they like but who ever rape even an enemy will be punished as prescribed in by ‘Islam.’



Ahmad Salkida is the one of the Nigerian journalists and civilians who has access to Boko Haram terrorist group.

According to ceasefire agreement between Nigerian government and insurgents over 200 abducted Chibok girls had to be released. But two weeks passed, violence didn’t stop and girls are still in captivity.