"No Ransom Was Paid In Exchange For The 82 Chibok Girls" - Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and culture, Lai Mohammed, has refuted the report going round that the Federal government  paid the sum of 2 million Euros to the
Militant Islamic group, Boko Haram in exchange for the 82 Chibok girls who were recently released.

The minister,  while responding  to a BBC report that Boko Haram received a ransom from the Federal Government in exchange for the girls said,

"Apart from the five Boko haram commanders, the exchange of which we have already made public, no other concession was made.

"Any other thing to the contrary is absolutely false.

"I emphatically deny on behalf of the Federal Government that any sum of ransom was paid in exchange for the 82 girls."