The call on the Federal Government by the Sultan of Sokoto to grant Boko Haram amnesty is misplaced and ill-conceived.
I am in total agreement with the position adopted by CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) and Mr. President on this issue and I am relieved that the call has been rejected.
The suggestion that a group of people that have slaughtered 4000
Nigerians in cold blood in the space of 2 years should be granted
amnesty is completely untenable and unacceptable. It is also dangerous
and counter-productive.
This is all the more so when the group has no face and has refused to
identify itself or its leaders and when it has not entered into a
ceasefire or laid down it’s arms. No sensible or responsible government
can offer amnesty to a group of people that are butchering its citizens
at will and whose evil and genocidal tendencies are unprecedented in the
history of our country.
Boko Haram is the greatest evil that Nigeria has ever known. They
have killed more innocent people in two years than the Irish Republican
Army managed to kill in 100 years of fighting against the British in
Northern Ireland.
You do not grant amnesty to such people. Instead you take off the
gloves, remove all sense of restraint and allow the Nigerian military to
do their job and crush them. This is a war against terror and it ought
to be prosecuted as such.
The great Kamal Attaturk did the same thing to the terrorists and
Islamic fundamentalists that troubled his country, Turkey, many years
ago. He took the bull by the horns, wiped them out and transformed
Turkey into the powerful, modern, industrialised, medium-power,
democratic and secular state with a strong economy that she is today.
Without doing what he did to the terrorists and those that butchered
others in the name of God, Turkey would not be the great country that
she is today.
The debate should not be whether we ought to grant Boko Haram amnesty
or not. The debate should be about how much support we need to give the
Federal Government, the Nigerian military and the security agencies to
do their job in wiping out the insidious cancer called Boko Haram.
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