• Nigeria: Sultan Urges Amnesty for Boko Haram

    Daily Trust (Abuja), 6 March 2013

    The Sultan of Sokoto yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to use the opportunity of his visit to Maiduguri scheduled for tomorrow to grant amnesty to Boko Haram fighters in order to restore peace in the North.

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  • ookoroafor
    Mar 6 2013, 06:42

    This is now the trap that the Federal Government is in now. I believe President Jonathan has been trying to do this for some time anyway, but if Sultan Abubakar's advice is taken, this will be the second group to use violence to get money and favours from Abuja. This will open the door to a third group to try the same years down the road. This is creating a society that will believe that they can also get access to government handouts through violence. With this, Nigeria will graduate to a new level of immorality and decay. Expect to see more violent uprisings, perhaps in another part of the country if this goes through.

  • mahdi
    Mar 6 2013, 07:26

    ookoroafor! this is unfortunate, but tell us how best GEJ could tackle the problem since you don't want amnesty?

  • dougmel@arcor.de
    Mar 6 2013, 09:30

    If the Sultan of Sokoto and the rest of Hausa/Fulani Leadership recommend an amnesty for their mass murdering terrorists,what do they recommend for the relatives, orphans and widows of Boko Haram's murder victims? Even the continued calls for a dialogue with the terrorists coming from the Hausa/Fulani leadsers constitute a collective affront to non-muslim Nigerians who are at the receiving end of Boko Haram Mass murder. One is tempted to ask if the Sultan and his fellow Northern Leaders do have their faculties about them?Are they really listening to themselves? The problem here is that we have an appeaser for a President,who seems very contented at being the President of our great nation. Long before he got elected into office,lots of Northern Leaders had threatened to make the country ungovernable for him.Among them were;Adamu Ciroma,Abdullahi Ango, Lawal Kaita,Tanko Yakassai and Turaki Abubakar.They did make good on their promise by unleashing the Boko Haram terrorists to murder innocent Christians,bomb and burn Churches and Christian property. Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate promised to lynch election riggers for our President and to make the North a wild wild North.Buhari employed the Boko Haram to do his lynching and the North has remained wild since. Why can't our President order all those criminal arrested? Our President even went public about having Boko Haram sponsors within his cabinet.He is yet to fish them out as the mass murder campaign continues and our so called Southern Leaders raise no question about that.That stinks of collective conspiracy all over the nation.Our leaders are too busy in their loot and share of our common national wealth to give a damn about a general insecurity in the polity. Late Gen.Andy Azazi,our erstwhile NSA went public about the finding of his office,that the Hausa/Fulani members of PDP are the one sponsoring the Boko Haram insurgency. First he got fired and later permanently silenced through his chopper crash demise orchestrated by the power-that- be. Lot of high profile Northerners have been implicated in the Boko Haram sponsorship brouhaha.Among them is the President's deputy,Alhaji Namadi Sambo.Even though the evidence against the Vice President is so overwhelming, he is yet to be questioned for once.He is a sacred cow and therefore a typical case of an Orwellian double speak in the polity. In Nigeria there is a Nigerian Sharia Movement,which is unconstitutional and therefore illegal.But the Movement imposed sharia in 12 Northern States.It has a Supreme Council,Political wings;the CPC and ANPP.The Boko Haram is its military wing sponsored by Sharia State Governors until recently.Alhji Sheriff Modu,former Governor of Borno State employed members of Boko Haram as his political thugs.He has never denied that. The Sultan of Sokoto is on record to have aided some Boko Haram members to escape prosecutions with his Perception Management.His recent call for amnesty and compensation for the mass mudering Boko Haram barbarians exposes him as one their godfathers. If the President of the Federal Republic can't guarantee the safety of lives and property of Christians in Nigeria against their Hausa/Fulani barabaric compariots,it is about time an SOS be sent to the world community.It is simply a curse to be a Christian in Nigeria.Enough is enough.Christians must defend themselves and their faith now.