Boko Haram: Buhari lauds amnesty committee

The National leader of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Mohammadu Buhari, on Wednesday said Nigerians should embrace whatever would bring peace to the country, including amnesty if granted to the Islamic militant sect, Boko haram.

Buhari who  was the CPC’s Presidential candidate in the last general election, said it was  good  that the Federal Government had set up a Committee to look into all requests for Amnesty for members Boko Haram sect, whose insurgency in parts of the north have left thousands of  persons dead and scores of others gravely injured.

Speaking with reporters at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta,  Buhari said he does not yet know the terms of reference of the Amnesty Committee but noted that if amnesty is granted to the group, it will be similar to what Late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Ardua did for  the Niger Delta militants .

“Yes, it is good they have set up a committee and I haven’t seen the terms of reference but it right thing to do but this is not the first time amnesty will be given to …  what shall I call them, a violent group, remember what happened with Alh. Musa Yar’Adua and the militants, so this not the first time. Whatever that will bring peace to the society, we should do it,”  Buhari stated.

The former military Head of States was accompanied to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital by National Chairman of the Party, Chief Tony Momoh, former Speaker, House of Representatives, Alh. Aminu – Bello Masari, National Publicity Secretary, Engr. Rotimi Fashakin, Southwest Chairman of CPC, Mr Razaq Muse, Lagos State Chairman, Emibata Ajibade and Buhari’s running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare.

He explained  that he was in Ogun State  to visit the matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu(HID) Awolowo and s=commiserate with her over the death of Evangelist, Oluwole Awolowo after which he proceeded to the Ijebu – Ode Palace of the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, on courtesy visit.

“I was in Ikene to commiserate with  the Awolowo family and I also drove to see the Awujale of Ijebuland. I came here in Abeokuta to greet the mother of my friend, and colleague, Pastor Tunde Bakare.  I went and greeted his mother. In the morning I will drive to Ekiti State and condole and commiserate with them on the death of their Deputy Governor. This is the purpose of my visit.”

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