Boko Haram: How FG Lodged Stephen Davis At Transcorp Hilton, Flew Him in Presidential Jet to Maiduguri FG flew him in presidential jet, lodged him at Transcorp Hilton Probe those named by the Australian, Restore Joint Task Force in Borno – Col. Kontagora I’m ready to face Ex-Governor Sheriff – Davis More revelations continue to emerge, deflating the claims by the Federal Government that it did not hire Australian Negotiator Stephen Davis. Davis had in an interview alleged that former Borno State governor, Ali Modu Sheriff and former Chief of Army Staff, General Azubuike Ihejirika are sponsors of Boko Haram. Another Negotiator Implicates Sheriff, Ihejirika in Boko Haram Sponsorship While both figures accused has since denied the allegations, It took the government 8 days t respond to Davis allegation and when it finally did, it denied hiring him to negotiate with Boko haram. In our earlier reports published on Saturday: Abusidiqu Analysis: Govt’s Half Truth About Australian Negotiator Stephen Davis and His Revelations and the second the published on Sunday: FG’s Lies Exposed: Report Indicates Jonathan Hired Australian Negotiator and Two Others , it was clear that the government was very economical with the truth. But to further expose its lies, Sunday Trust gathered from one of those who went to Sambisa with Davis to meet with Boko Haram commanders that the Federal Government hired him, flew him in presidential jet and lodged him at Transcorp hilton where some secret meetings with some elements where held before he proceeded to Maiduguri still in a presidential jet. Sunday Trust reports: With a truckload of soldiers, a good intention and a high expectation, 63-year-old Reverend Stephen Davis, an Australian, drove into the darkness of New Marte, an uncertain darkness made accessible by the half-full moon. The large expanse of land in the corridor of the Lake Chad Basin, with President Olusegun Obasanjo had opened up for farming under an irrigation scheme which shares border with Cameroon. It is located in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State. Instead of the intended farming activities, the field that stretches beyond where the eyes could reach, occupying a space of some 50,000 hectares, had been subdued by the Boko Haram sect. To demonstrate their control over that land and space, the militant sect had set up camps on the farms, and had asked the Australian and the ladies who wanted to negotiate the release of close to 300 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok to meet them there under the cover of darkness. “We had to drive to New Marte because that’s where the sect commanders we were in touch with wanted to talk to us,” a woman who was on the entourage told our reporter. “It was a very dangerous trip to make at night, but the sect had given us the assurance that they would not attack us.” In was in late April, about two weeks after the abduction of the schoolgirls from their hostel in Chibok, and Reverend Davis had reached out to the sect members who wanted to know what government wanted to put on the table in the deal to have the girls released. “It was a very scary encounter,” the woman elaborated. “At about 3.00am, we saw the sect members engaged in a kind of military drill. We initially thought it was the Nigerian Army personnel who were training, but we were wrong; it was the sect members. We even discovered that the soldiers who accompanied us to the camp abandoned us in the night. I thank God that we came out of the place alive. At the end of it all, we gained nothing, because government did not demonstrate the commitment to obtain the release of the girls.” The scene above was one of the encounters The Reverend Davis, recognised as an international arbitrator, had in his efforts to obtain the release of Chibok girls, a five- month struggle that has come to nothing – but frustration.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 12:29:18 +0000
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