I don’t sell Boko haram Videos – Nigerian Negotiator

The Maiduguri Borno State-born journalist, Ahmad Salkida, widely reported to have strong ties with the the Boko Haram insurgent sect, has denied selling videos of the sect to foreight media.

Ahmad who said he was shocked by a report making the rounds that he was profitting from the Boko Haram insurgency, was responding to a British Television Broadcaster, Channel 4, which had stated that Salkida sought to sell the third and latest video released by the sect to selected foreign media organisations.

He was alleged to have shown the footage detailing how the Chibok girls lamented their ordeal in the hands of the insurgents for the first time to President Goodluck Jonathan.

 “Mr. Salkida, who is understood to have shown the video to President Jonathan, is also believed to have tried — unsuccessfully — to sell rights to the footage to international television stations for a substantial, but undisclosed, sum of money.

“News of this is said to have resulted in his falling out with the Boko Haram commanders with whom he was dealing,” Channel 4 News stated in its report.

But in a quick rebuttal, Salkida said at no time had he, in his long term relationship with the leadership of the sect, traded exclusive Boko Haram videos for money.

Describing the report as “junk journalism,” the 40-year-old freelance journalist, who had since relocated his family to the United Arab Emirates, said he would have become “wealthy” if he had chosen that path.

“If I want to sell videos I would be a wealthy man because my sources can give me every single one of their videos,” Salkida, who refused to disclose his location, told our correspondent via electronic mail.

He alleged that there were a lot of “media junks” flying around specifically targeted at bringing him down.

On his level of involvement in reported negotiations with the insurgents aimed at freeing the Chibok schoolgirls, the reporter said he would not want it to become a media affair.

Bros please just do your job oh, no go do extra, that want na him be the beginning of the "koko."