Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said three lecturers of the University of Maiduguri, 15 policewomen, 113 Chibok girls and other Nigerians in Boko Haram’s captivity would be freed soon.

This is just as the nation’s service chiefs arrived in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Tuesday, five days after receiving a marching order from Osinbajo.

The Acting President, who addressed #BringBackOurGirls campaigners during their march to the Presidential Villa in Abuja, said the Federal Government had contacted negotiators across the world to ensure their release.

He added that the Presidency was working with negotiators who had in the past assisted in securing the release of former hostages.

The Switzerland Government, the Red Cross and a Borno State-based lawyer, Zannah Mustapha, helped to negotiate the release of 21 Chibok girls in October last year.

Mustapha was also instrumental in the release of 82 Chibok girls in May 2017, after three years in captivity.

Addressing the #BringBackOurGirls members, the Acting President said negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of all Nigerians in Boko Haram captivity.

Osinbajo, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, disclosed that he had been meeting daily with security chiefs to fast-track the release of all hostages being held by the insurgents and kidnappers.

He lauded the BBOG agitators for their resilience, stressing that any country that would develop needed such patriotic and committed citizens to grow.

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He said, “On the issue of the policewomen and the girls that are still being held, the Acting President has been meeting with the security chiefs on a daily basis and making contacts with negotiators across the world to secure their release.

“We have not for any moment forgotten any of our children. In the last two weeks, the Acting President has coordinated the release of the Lagos students that were kidnapped.

“There is no way the Acting President or President Muhammadu Buhari will say they are not concerned about the fate of every Nigerians that have been taken by terrorists or kidnappers.”

The Acting President explained that the decision to withhold information on the abducted citizens was for strategic security reasons, noting that a lot was being done behind the scene to free those abducted by the deadly sect.

He reassured Nigerians that more or the rest of the Chibok girls would soon be freed and reunited with their parents.

“The fact that we are not coming out to say what is being done is strategic for security reasons; intelligence is being gathered, very soon, more of the girls, if not all, will be brought back to their parents safely,” he said.

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