Maiduguri — The Jama'atul Ahalis Sunna Lida'awati Wal Jihad, a.k.a Boko Haram Islamic sect which has been terrorizing some states in the North, particularly Borno, Monday agreed to cease fire/lay down their arms for peace to prevail.
The agreement was reached after a group suspected to be members of the sect claimed to have a closed door meeting with the Borno state Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, other top government officials and religious leaders from the state.
Briefing Journalists after their marathon meeting, the acclaimed Commander in-charge of North and Central Borno, Sheikh Abu Mohammad Abdulazeez Ibn Idris, said after due consultation with the leader of the sect, Shiekh Abubakar Shekau, as well as intervention and pleading from respectful individuals/groups in the state, they have all come to terms and agreed to lay down their arms, but insisting that, Government should immediately released all their members from custody unconditionally, re-build their places of worship, and compensate them, among other demands.
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Compensate terrorists for bombing and killing innocent people? Those who don't deserve compensation are the victims and bereaved. In a moribund country everything goes upside-down
This unilteral offer of a cease fire by the Hausa/ Fulani terrorists and their sponsors goes a long way to show how daft and unintelligent the cattle drivers are. It seems as if they are scared to hell because of the routing and annihilation being meted out to their counterparts in Mali spearheaded by the Grande Nation, France. That silly Governor of Bornno State,Alhaji Kasim Shettima must stop making some insulting demands on behalf of his mass murdering peons.He should advise that self-acclaimed terrorist Commander,Sheikh Abu Mohammed Abdulazeez Idris and his men to avail themselves by surrendering to the appropriate authority. Their heinous crimes fall within the realm of crimes against humanity. South Africa has already set a precedent for our nation by giving Chief Henry Okah a life sentence which was followed last week by an Abuja Federal High Court which meted out another life sentence to Chief Edimund. Should the Federal Government fail to prosecute all the Boko Haram members and their sponsors,the relatives of the victims of Boko Haram mass murder campaign will be compelled to take the case to the ICC at the Hague. The Prosecutor Chief of the Interntional Criminal Court, Madam Fatou Bensounda had already committed herself to taking up the Boko Haram case last year. The case of Mallam Ali Sanda Umar Kondonga(alias Usman Al-Zawahiri) should be retried.He got a mere three years for his part in Boko Haram mass murder.There must be equal justice for all terrorists mass murders and their sponsors.