The federal government on Wednesday said no payoff as paid to secure the arrival of the Dapchi schoolgirls hijacked by Boko Haram individuals.

The claim was made by the pastor of culture and data, Lai Mohammed, while tending to State House Correspondents in Abuja.

He, nonetheless, conceded that the Nigerian government held arrangement converses with the psychological militant gathering.

He stated, "The young ladies were discharged unequivocally, no cash changed hands. They (Boko Haram guerillas) just had one condition – that they will return them to where they picked them. In this way, in the early hours of today, they returned the young ladies and the greater part of them went to their folks' homes.

"Like I said in the announcement discharged to you early, once brutality and encounter was discounted and arrangement began, there was a consider delay with respect to the military; at the end of the day, it was concurred that there will be no power, there will be no showdown, that was the reason it was feasible for them to drop the young ladies. It was a piece of the assention that when they discharge the young ladies, there will be no brutality or showdown. What's more, keep in mind that the lives of this kids are significantly more imperative to us than any modest triumph.

"Starting at now, I can affirm that 91 young ladies and one kid have been discharged. The occasion is creating. Huge numbers of the young ladies that were discharged were not dropped in one place. Some were dropped out and about and they backpedaled normally to their folks' homes. They are presently being requested to come and be reported at an inside and as at five minutes back, I was told 91 young ladies and kid had been recorded."

On the kid discharged, Mohammed stated, "I can reveal to you that is bona fide. Regardless of whether they pick the kid or not I can't peril any figure but rather bear in mind even in a young lady school, which is an all inclusive school there will be guardians, they are educators who can have kids among them. In any case, what I have been told is that 91 young ladies and one kid have been archived."