President Jonathan being persuaded to swap prisoners for Chibok girls

Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan is reported being pressured to adopt the America-Taliban prisoner swap model in getting back the abducted Chibok school girls who have been in captivity for close to 60 days now.

Anonymous sources are saying that the president is being persuaded to reconsider its decision in the swap deal and follow the example of the United State who got back its soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in an exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

“So far, the government has not foreclosed negotiation or a kind of understanding with Boko Haram to set the girls free. The target of the Presidency is to get the Chibok girls dilemma off national discourse as soon as possible”

There were also reports that clerics and government officials were working secretly on a ‘deal’ with Boko Haram to rescue the girls.

I agree with this method only if the prisoners to be set free are those from whom all necessary vital information would have been retrieve from. What the Americans did was to release five prisoners from whom all necessary and vital information have been extracted from and therefor, keeping them was of no benefit to the government and tax payers’ money. 

This is why it is important to get as much information from captured prisoners as soon as possible.

But again, if it would guarantee the safe delivery of the Chibok girls, then please do it. Their lives are worth more than some useless prisoners, from whom all necessary information have been extracted, rendering them useless and excess to requirement.