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Gordon Brown backs Nigeria's decision

I would challenge Boko Haram to publish pictures of ALL the girls to prove they are alive

MP Gordon Brown

This is every parents nightmare - my children are going to school this morning, and we assume, all of us, that our children are going to be safe and return home without any danger and any risk. But now in Nigeria this is an almost every week occurrence, that children are either being bombed or burnt or they are being kidnapped or abducted and we must help the Nigerians stop this.

Gordon Brown speaking to John Stapleton and Charlotte Hawkins

Nigeria has said it will not agree to an offer from Islamist terror group Boko Haram to release prisoners in return for the schoolgirls who were kidnapped last week. The rebels released footage appearing to show some of those who had been abducted.

We're joined by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown from Fife, who backs Nigeria's decision to not release the prisoners and tells us what he thinks must be done.

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