Nigeria: Is Boko Haram 'Ceasefire' on Cards?

The Islamic sect Boko Haram reportedly says it is ready to "lay down arms" to negotiate peace, after a 42-month onslaught that left approximately 3 000 people dead and property and infrastructure destroyed.

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  • Okigbo
    Jan 31 2013, 12:23

    The Boko Haram people and their Northern political class are dishonest. They are running low on arms and ammunition and trained suicide bombers because of the tightened border control at the Nigeria-Chad/Nigeria-Niger boundaries. The federal government should not be fooled. The ceasefire is only a tactics to reload. Watch them carefully and monitor their activities. Nigeria should employ satellite monitoring system to ensure they are not even using tunnels to smuggle arms and personnel across the borders. I won't put anything behind these people. For more than twenty years now we have been witnessing arms smuggling into northern Nigeria, and we were made to believe that only a bunch of criminals funding armed robbers were responsible until now that well-armed Boko Haram showed up on the scene.

  • Africanman in Ireland
    Jan 29 2013, 06:30

    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

  • dougmel@arcor.de
    Jan 29 2013, 10:15

    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.