Forgive Boko Haram and Offer Them Amnesty-House Speaker, Tambuwal

Forgive Boko Haram and Offer Them Amnesty-House Speaker, Tambuwal

The Speaker of the House of Representative, Aminu Tambuwal, has urged the Federal Government to forgive the members of the Boko Haram Islamic Sect and grant them amnesty.

Tambuwal said this in a  BBC Hausa interview  yesterday.  In his own words,
Tambuwal urged the FG “forgive them, bring them to the table and discuss with them to see how to end these problems.”

This would not be the first time there has been an appeal on the FG to reconsider it's stance on Boko Haram.

About a month ago,  Buba Galadima, the National Secretary of the Muhammadu Buhari led Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) had told the same BBC that the FG was underestimating the support that Boko Haram had within the population.

Buba Galadima had reasoned in that interview thus “Why didn't the president crush the Niger Deltans? That's a questions a lot of people in this part of the country are asking.  Instead they are being rewarded for the economic destruction they brought Nigeria. Why can't the same be true for Boko Haram? The people are sympathetic to certain principles and ideas," he told the BBC. If people feel they are being denied anything or an injustice is being meted out to them then there is a likelihood that they will take the law into their own hands and help themselves."

Meanwhile the police in Kano have revealed that some of the Boko Haram attackers who invaded Kano and killed over 170 people were Chadians. According to the police, Kano indigenes heard the attackers speaking in Chadian language.

The exact statement from the police regarding this went thus

“The extremists are said to be speaking accented Hausa language, Kanuri and Chad languages,”

For now, it will be difficult for the people of Kano, whose Emir broke down in tears when President Jonathan received him, to forgive the Boko Haram insurgents who have unleashed a bloodbath on their city and left many mourning.