₦airaland Forum

subterfuge: Papabrowne the the Jonathan asshole licker!!
Instead of addressing the corruption issues in Power sector as a whole you continue to defend your stupidity/ignorance. How I wish we were living in CHINA so your corrupt head will be sawed off, then you would continue preaching you MEGAWAtT theory in HELL fire.

Gamji007: O.K grand pa! Can you please tell us the justice that was done to the victims of ND millitancy when amnesty was granted to the millitants?

Can you also please advice on a possible solution to boko haram crisis?

subterfuge: Dederocks or whatever insane name you call yourself Boko Haram know all about you !!! You will be the next Target mr solution.

Ngwakwe: If democracy is the government of, by and for the people, I see no reason why the President shouldn't try to reconcile his decisions with that of majority opinion.

Remember, he is a politician and is still eyeing for a second term mandate from the same people he refuses their opinions.

Even God in the bible ask humans to come and reason with him, and in another verse God said, present your strong reasons.

My conclusion is, apart from the portion I deleted from your text, GEJ or any leader in a democratic setting should not be autocratic rather a listening leader.

ba7man: @OP. Your question simplifies the whole situation. Sadly our Government would rather bribe their way out of a problem than solve it. At this rate, they've justified the creation of more killer groups that will use innocent lives to bargain for their share of the national cake.

subterfuge: please stop asking foolish questions.
Have you been able to rid Nigeria of these said killers/terrorists
If you have the perfect solution to the problem, please bring it up elsh shut your filthy ,infected gut!!!!!!
I wish you are the next boko haram , then you will be talking from HELL!!!

tbaba1234: Not exactly, the punishment for murder is decided by the family of the victim. So it depends on them. Often times blood money is paid, the family might forgive, or the person might serve a sentence. It is quite flexible.

donroxy: I hope this amnesty won't lead to more insurgency in Nigeria......

Also read some ex-militants protested @ National Assembly few days back for their own phase of Amnesty......


Hmmm, Nigeria!!!

Rossikk: If amnesty will bring peace, why not?

Or do you people prefer the bombs that have been dropping to peace?

The govt will find it hard to crush BH physically because BH do not have a standing army that is fighting a frontal war against the govt. They're like a guerrilla outfit. Hide and seek. To really go at them would mean mass casualties of the innocent. Nobody wants that, so the next thing is amnesty. Let God judge the killers in His own time.

gymer: A new plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to grant amnesty to members of the violent Boko Haram sect has upset Nigeria’s military chiefs.

Sources at the Presidential Villa, where the military brass met with the President for several hours today, said they tried in vain to convince Mr. Jonathan not to fall into the trap that has been set for him by prominent northern leaders on the issue.

They were said to have told him the security implications of the action and that it could also be interpreted to mean that the President is not a man of his word. Mr. Jonathan has flip-flopped on federal policy against Boko Haram since he took office in 2010.

The military bosses reminded him of his words when he visited Borno State a few weeks ago when he said that there was no way he would grant amnesty to ghosts, stressing that nothing has changed. Mr. Jonathan once said there were members of Boko Haram in his government, but it is not clear if they are still ghosts or he has identified them.

He was also said to have been reminded that many of their men and other security officers have been indiscriminately killed, warning him that telling the rank and file the decision on amnesty could ignite anger in the barracks.

At the end of the lengthy discussion, which lasted for five hours, the President had his way against the genuine advice of the military chiefs, except one. He set up a committee to handle the issue of amnesty.

The committee, whose members are yet to be announced, is to work with the office of the National Security Adviser.

A Presidential source said that the committee will consider the feasibility or otherwise of granting pardon to the Boko Haram members and collate the views of those clamouring for amnesty, as well as recommend modalities for the granting of pardon should such a policy be adopted.

President Jonathan seems to have adopted the argument of the northern elements after meeting with some of their prominent members in Abuja on Wednesday night. Although today he seem highly disposed to the amnesty idea, he is known to change his mind fairly easily.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/military-chiefs-outraged-over-jonathan’s-plan-grant-boko-haram-amnesty

Gbongbonosi: Hmmm cowardice but Mr uwasuruke thunder as never landed in your face before? ask from your elders what happen in 1967 may be you are stil in primary