Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba has said
security agencies tackling insecurity are sometimes forced to stoop low to
negotiate with bandits or kidnappers in order to free hostages unhurt.
Justifying the claims, he said it would be an exercise in
futility if terrorists who are armed abduct persons and the police go in search
of them under captivity using extreme force.
Alkali Baba made the explanations against the backdrop of
over 80 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram captivity, including 29 students of
FGC Birni Yauri who have not been set free several years after their abduction.
The IGP made the disclosures on Thursday while featuring at
the weekly briefings coordinated by the Presidential Media Team in Abuja.
His words, “You see, the issue of kidnapping is an issue
that borders almost all the security agents, including the military, it is a
crime that once it is committed, you have to thread very softly and with all
sense of professionalism.
“If you do not rescue the person, safely, unhurt, you have
not achieved anything and once somebody is in the captivity of an armed person,
then you need to do a lot of things, it is not all about guns and other things.
“There are a lot of other things that can be done. We were
able to rescue the whole of Forestry students in Kaduna through negotiation, we
were able to rescue many others, which I can give you an example, for those
that we are in contact with, there are things that we are doing, it is a new
crime and requires new ways of approaching it and new ways of dousing it.
“Clearly it is under study. For instance, the issue of Train
negotiators and so forth were not an issue before, but now we are looking into
it and we are putting our personnel to undergo such training and courses. So,
we will not say hope is lost. We are still on it”.
The IGP also made a stunning revelation, saying some of the
Chibok girls who have been put into family way and were rescued while wandering
in the bush, actually make moves to return to their captors.
He said, “The issue of Chibok girls you know they are coming
out one after another and gradually. Sometimes they come out and say yes, we
have come to see our parents and we want to go back.
“So maybe they have been assimilated or acclimatized with
the situation and indoctrinated and had become part and parcel of those who
have abducted them. But like as I’m saying, it is a continuous effort and even
last month, you saw a Chibok girl coming out with two or three kids and said
she only came to greet her parents and she wants to go back. So, we are still
on it, there is hope”.
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