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THE Presidency has nothing to do with Dr Stephen Davis, the Australian who was reported to be negotiating with Boko Haram insurgents to free the over 200 girls the terrorists abducted in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14.

This is according to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, who denied government’s knowledge of the negotiation when the Nigerian Tribune sought to confirm the authenticity of the claims made by Dr Davis, published in the United Kingdom-based MailOnline.

Abati pointed out that the Defence Headquarters had already distanced the military from the purported negotiation, saying that the position of the presidency could not be different from the military because “the military is directly responsible for the operation and takes instructions from the president.”

According to the tabloid, Dr Davis had left his home in Perth to travel to Nigeria, after being recruited by President Goodluck Jonathan for his hostage negotiation expertise and Davis was now desperately trying to free the schoolgirls.

The medium reported that Dr Davis, a friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, had been working secretly in Nigeria for almost a month now, quoting the former Canon Emeritus at Coventry Cathedral in the UK, who moved back to Australia last year, to have said “I am encouraged by the progress.”

It added that he was asked to come to Nigeria after previously brokering a truce between violent rebels and the government in the Niger Delta in 2004.

MailOnline said in an email from Nigeria, the doctor revealed he had “ongoing ” with the groups involved in the kidnapping in the North for seven years, adding that “this is a long process of building trust on both sides.”

The report further quoted him as “there are several groups to deal with, as the girls are held in several camps. This makes any thought of a rescue highly improbable. To attempt to rescue one group would only endanger the others.”

It noted that despite the difficulties of a rescue operation, Dr Davis remained hopeful that the schoolgirls would be freed, quoting him as saying, “everyday, there is the possibility of the release of the girls.”

According to the MailOnline, Dr Davis warned: “we must not endanger their lives any further,” noting that his recent negotiation work has been to forward military position in the North-East in recent days.

Sect has no basis in Islam —OIC
The Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) has described of the Boko Haram sect now wreaking havoc in parts of the country as outlaws, whose activities have no basis in Islam.

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, Mr Eyad Ameen Madani, told State House correspondents after leading officials of the conference for a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, that the organisation condemned the terrorists and expressed its willingness to assist Nigeria in any way to fight terror.

Asked about their mission at the Villa, he said “we are here primarily to listen to His Excellency on his vision about the OIC in the years to come.

“We are also here to express our solidarity with Nigeria in facing up to this terrorist organisation and to condemn the terrorist acts they have been committing, we are also here to show our condolences to Nigerian people and to the families of those who have been affected.

“The OIC has already issued statements and we are very clear that these people are outlaws. What they do is criminal acts that have nothing to do with Islam, Islamic teaching, the religion and history of Islam, the culture and civilisation of Islam and we should identify them for what they are, a terrorist group.”

The OIC scribe said the conference would be willing to assist Nigeria morally and ethically and whichever way the country wanted it to intervene.

“The OIC is not a religious organisation. It is a political organisation made up of 57 member states with each state represented as a government. Nigeria is a member of the OIC as government of Nigeria. But it has to express the concern about the misuse of Islam. That is morally and ethically.

“We can also be and we are willing to do that, if our brothers here will like us to do that, to organise interfaith dialogue. We feel that there is a lot to be said about the veracity of these claims and to show the many aspects in similarity in living together between not only Christians and Muslims, but between all faiths and convictions,” he said.

Also speaking, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, who led them to the Villa, reiterated the OIC’s expression of and understanding with Nigeria over the current security situation in the country.

He added that it was a demonstration to Nigerians that the Islamic organisation was willing to help the country to overcome its present challenges.

According to the minister, “the fact that the OIC has expressed its position of and understanding in these areas of our challenges goes to show that they are playing their roles to any of its states that have any problem, be it socially or economically, religiously or otherwise.”

http://tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/6985-presidency-disowns-australian-boko-haram-negotiator/6985-presidency-disowns-australian-boko-haram-negotiator

For saying the truth?
Ok now Oga's ambition is being threatened abi
Very poor damage control by this istration The deed is done! Too late for this...Jonathan needs to do the needful
Anyway, with this development, maybe the bombing would stop in North East Nigeria
Why does it take the government this late to react to any development affecting us as a nation?
Jona, PDP, DHQ, Shettima and Ihejirika have been lying to Nigerians since independence
Stephen Davies, PhD should tell us who gave him the brief for the 'mediation project'

Mr. Davies can you name who employed you?
The Presidency and the DHQ have denied you.

I saw the denial by the federal government coming. It was expected and it happened.


PDP is Boko Haram and Boko Haram is PDP

Story for the gods!

Who cares? Mtcheeeeeew!

Very good...let the clown name who employed him now...

Story for the gods. So the President of Nigeria is telling us an Australian came to Nigeria and executed such a High-Profile Operation with anyone in the Presidency knowing

Were they all drunk and asleep? I thought it is only one man that is drunk in Aso Rock?

Government did not denied Dr Davis when he never mention any name.. Why now?

What took them so long to respond to Dr Davis involvement with negotiating with Boko haram?

Does it mean we shouldn't expect any trial of the people mentioned?



"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"- Abraham Lincoln

argon500: Government did not denied Dr Davis when he never mention any name.. Why now?

What took them so long to respond to Dr Davis involvement with negotiating with Boko haram?

Does it mean we shouldn't expect any trial of the people mentioned?



"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"- Abraham Lincoln

You expected boko haram to reveal to an Australian their chief sponsor abi? You really think they're that stupid, for example how many Alkaieda did you think would've named Bin Laden as their leader?

Let me say their sponsors name starts with B and ends with I.

Federal Government of Nigeria where the very impossible becomes absolutely very very possible.

*starts harvesting corn* this one wey august don rain de go.

This report was released in June....

Lol..........Mr jobless Davies, take back APC's money, mission Impossible.

story for the gods!!! the sekibo and harry Marshall story self na lie. abeg make abati park him gogoro for one corner. anyway the speed wey this thread go enter front page ehn, he go speed of light self.

Well, who is surprised here?

If you are, then u probably weren't born in that year when ribadu's report on corruption in NNPC was thrown to the trash by your president...

Talk another one abeg

Chia...to think that people in thier right senses still this government of lies and deceit is beyond human comprehension!

Yeye dey ooze!

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They couldn't even respond appropriately to the issues raised.

There is timidity and unwillingnes to engage the man in this response and knowing PDP and the Presidency, they would have gone for the man jugular if truly they have nothing to do with him.

A yoruba adage says " An artist that is singing rubbish, he also listens to himself" .

Never let all these corrupt politicians deceives you. APC, PDP, APGA or whatever, they are all the same cabal of people holding us on ransom.

Does it mean the people behind boko haram are more powerful than the government?

Whether state government or federal government, which of them have you benefited from?

If you have an opportunity to have stepped outside Nigeria, then you will know that our politicians are ruler/dictator not a leader..

3 years ago, the total electricity generated in Nigeria is not up to what ordinary Heathrow Airport used.. So what are we talking about?

A friend of mine who has been living in Kenya for the past 1 years + said he never experience light off and we call ourself giant of Africa Ant

And moreover, are you the new spoke person for the government cos I am wondering why you are defending them.

M0GIDI:

You expected boko haram to reveal to an Australian their chief sponsor abi? You really think they're that stupid, for example how many Alkaieda did you think would've named Bin Laden as their leader?

Let me say their sponsors name starts with B and ends with I.

i always knew the mofo was recruited by the terrorist APC!!Things are comming to light now

BOAR: They couldn't even respond appropriately to the issues raised.

There is timidity and unwillingnes to engage the man in this response and knowing PDP and the Presidency, they would have gone for the man jugular if truly they have nothing to do with him.

which issue was raised? the dude was just running his mouth without adducing any iota of evidence

Only idiots believe these white deviils,same people that killed Abach posing as UN peeps.
Anyone can be used to distract our military from their work and APC are the chief suspects

This president never stops to amaze me. Now because his cronies have been exposed he's now denying the man.
Why not critically assess the issues raised by the man, and address it appropriately.
The lives of Nigerians is at stake here and you take this information with a pinch of the salt.
The president is supposed to know that this information can not just be cooked up, he really needs to look into it and do the needful.

http://www.naija.io/blogs/p/135077/presidency-disowns-australian-boko-haram-negotiator

3rd June 2014



THE Presidency has nothing to do with Dr Stephen Davis, the Australian who was reported to be negotiating with Boko Haram insurgents to free the over 200 girls the terrorists abducted in Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on April 14. This is according to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, who denied government’s knowledge of the negotiation when the Nigerian Tribune sought to confirm the authenticity of the claims made by Dr Davis, published in the United Kingdom-based MailOnline. Abati pointed out that the Defence Headquarters had already distanced the military from the purported negotiation, saying that the position of the presid...

ShehuAba: This president never stops to amaze me. Now because his cronies have been exposed he's now denying the man.
Why not critically assess the issues raised by the man, and address it appropriately.
The lives of Nigerians is at stake here and you take this information with a pinch of the salt.
The president is supposed to know that this information can not just be cooked up, he really needs to look into it and do the needful.

"One of the biggest of suppliers of arms and military uniforms to the JAS (Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, better known as Boko Haram) currently lives in Cairo, Egypt. He is the recipient of money sent by political sponsors from Nigeria. The funds go through the CBN’s financial system and appear to be a legal transaction. Meanwhile, the CBN official who handles the funding is an uncle to three of those arrested in connection with the Nyanya bombings. The three boys lived with him. They were arrested by the SSS (Department of State Security) after the bombings but they do not seem to have been interrogated about their uncle in CBN. Or if they have given up information about their uncle then the SSS has not moved against him." Stephen said Continue...

"Also, a senior official of CBN, who recently left the bank, was very close to Sodiq Aminu Ogwuche, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombings who also schooled in Sudan. Boko haram commanders said Ogwuche’s wife used to visit this top official in his office at the headquarters of the bank in Abuja before the Nyanya bombings. They were very close,” Davis said. He said he is speaking out now because he feels the Federal government is doing little in the rescue of the missing Chibok girls "I have three daughters. I just cannot stand the thought of what those girls are ing through. I have spoken to an escapee who described how she was being Molested for 40 days by militants. I can’t stand it. It is heart-breaking. Nigerian authorities must act decisively now,” he said

http://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-boko-haram-funded-through-cbn

So it was published three months ago. Gullible folks won't even bother to check the date of the publication.




From negotiator to investigator. Oyibo, who hired you? smh.

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Some folks are already praying that this thread will not be moved to the front-page after they realized FG made this statement in June

Nigeria should be withdrawn from IOC with immediate effect. It beats my imagination how Nigeria became a member of this religious group.
hip to IOC contradict the Nigerian Constitution which states that Nigeria as a secular state has no business getting involved in religious activities or becoming a member of such religious organizations. (Emphasis mine)

if it's not the presidency who hired the Australian Negotiator then who hired him? So the Australian Negotiator joblessly left his country to come to Nigeria to help us Negotiate with BH for Free and uninvited. The presidency must be awear nobody has the right or power to approve such kind of Jobs only the presidency and FG has such power.

Abati, may the gods slap that your lying mouth, and that of the mumu who hired you.

Shameless f00ls.

lilprinze: if it's not the presidency who hired the Australian Negotiator them who hired him? So the Australian Negotiator joblessly left his country to come to Nigeria to help us Negotiate with BH for Free and uninvited. The presidency must be awear nobody has the right or power to approve such kind of Jobs only the presidency and FG has such power.

Gusau should answer the question.

Biliamin:
According to the tabloid, [size=18pt] Dr Davis had left his home [/size] in Perth to travel to Nigeria, [size=18pt]after being recruited by President Goodluck Jonathan[/size] for his hostage negotiation expertise and Davis was now desperately trying to free the schoolgirls.

In simple words, Dr Stephen Davis is on his own; he's a rogue negotiator!

deeobserver209: Nigeria should be withdrawn from IOC with immediate effect. It beats my imagination how Nigeria became a member of this religious group.
hip to IOC contradict the Nigerian Constitution which states that Nigeria as a secular state has no business getting involved in religious activities or becoming a member of such organizations. (Emphasis mine)

The social misfit call IBB, single handedly as a true Moslem, entered Nigeria as a member of OIC!

He aslo gave them $21B to facilitate the total islamisation of Nigeria!

Politcally, the agenda has failed! Now, it is by force!
OIC came to mock us! Shekau is am Islamic hero!

Or is Uthman Dan Fodio not a hero?