Trending: Nigerian singer’s sex offer to Shekau for Chibok girls

A Nigerian pop singer and actress has stirred a wave on the social media after she offered her virginity to Abubakar Shekau and his band of Boko Haram predators, in exchange for the kidnapped 219 Chibok schoolgirls.

Adokiye, 23, who is also a UN peace ambassador had made the proposal in an interview with Vanguard.

‘This is 11pm in the night and do you know what I am thinking about? Those little girls, where they are and what could be happening to them.

‘It is just unfair. They are too young. I wish I could offer myself in exchange.’

The UN Ambassador of Peace also added: ‘They are between 12 and 15 year old girls for Christ sake. I am older and more experienced. Even if 10 to 12 men have to take me every night, I don’t care. Just release these girls and let them go back to their parents.’

Most comments on the gesture described it as touching, but some described it as PR stunt, while other commentators wondered why the Nigerian government has failed to rescue the girls since 14 April.

The kidnapping, by the Abubakar Shekau led group, has already sparked a worldwide campaign #BringBackOurGirls. It has been backed by celebrities and high-profile leaders like David Cameron and Michelle Obama but Twitter uses weren’t so sure about the merits of Adokiye’s offer.

Twitter user Singhatul2014 said the offer was ‘very touching’ and that Adokiye should be given a Nobel Peace Prize, while user Kunleadefioye asked: ‘And what can one make of this Adokiye offer –
genuine, gallery play, tacky postering or…’

On Mail Online, one reader simply wondered whether the singer has what she is promising: her virginity.

Meanwhile, Islamists fighting for Boko Haram are leaving their forest hiding places after a number of senior militants died as a result of relentless attacks by snakes and bees, it has been claimed.

Two suspected Boko Haram gunmen arrested in Maiduguri in north eastern Nigeria claimed that members of the group have now fled the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon, following ‘incessant snake bites’ and bee stings.

Nigeria’s army have been trying to flush the militants out of the area for months, but it appears they are now leaving voluntarily in the belief the attacks are the spirits of their victims haunting them.

.Rewritten from Mail Online