Indications emerged last night that President Goodluck Jonathan may have resolved to declare amnesty for the Boko Haram sect.

This was the outcome of a meeting between the president and the leadership of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) at the presidential villa, Abuja.

This is even as Jonathan has summoned a security meeting with chiefs in the country, which will be held today at the presidential villa.

Jonathan also used the occasion to deny ever ruling out amnesty for the sect.

The president is expected to set up an amnesty commission to fine- tune details of clemency to the sect members.

Former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Prof Ango Abdullahi, told State House Correspondents after the meeting which ended at about11:30pm that the president’s response to the call for amnesty at the meeting, which is sequel to the one held between the president and the NEF in May last year, was positive and that he assured the NEF delegation that the amnesty for the insurgents will be tabled before the security meeting today.

Abdullahi said, “The meeting is simply a follow-up visit on the invitation of Mr. President. Many of you will recall that about eight or nine months ago, we interacted with the president on matters of the nation.

We submitted a memorandum to him and he promised that he was going to look at our submission and he will call us back to further dialogue on the issues we have raised in ou submission. Ans this is precisely what transpired today.

“The contention here that there are challenges in the country, especially in the area of security which is the greatest challenge.

What we discussed is that general opinion in the country is that amnesty should be factored into all effort made by government to overcome the security challenges all over the country or in most parts of the North.

Fortunately the president is already thinking hard on it.

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Amnesty would be a joke in this country...uhhhn.......!!!
The more the Amnesty,the more the insurgency!!!
The Federal Govt really need to be preemptive and proactive.....!!!

Security starts with the provision of basic social amenities to the people!!!

how can there be peace without justice?
has amnesty solved mend issue?
how can u give amnesty to sum1 that is ready to die for the course he believed in. Did they even want the amnesty?

The best amnesty u can give to any islamist/terrorist is to send him to his 72 virgins asap

kill him and anyone that harbour him b4 he kill en masse simple

Na LIE!!!

As long as the Amnesty is not funded by money from Niger delta oil but by groundnut and cattle proceeds, I have no qualms for that.

MASSOB is learning... mu he he he he.

I Hope this will bring peace to reconciliate with BH. Nice Move!

Watch it, another group would emerge, destroy lives and properties and ask for amnesty and FG would grant it.
Mtcheeeew


We don't negotiate with terrorists - in my American accent

Am just sorry for ebele.cos in the end when the terrorist decide to bomb again,this same northerners would use him as the fall guy.