Yar’Adua’s Experience May Threaten Boko Haram Peace Talks

Indications emerged at the weekend that the Federal Government  is not swayed and may, therefore, not accept the peace proposal presented by the dreaded Ahlan Sunnah Lid Da’waati wal Jihad Yaanaa (brothers), popularly known as the Boko Haram sect.

This fear maybe traced to late president Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s experience with the group in 2008. Yar’adua then had released some members of the sect in detention as a sign of good faith only for such members to regroup, and launch fresh waves of attacks on government forces and installations.
There are fears also that the high command of the sect may have lost total grip of all its members as it is believed there are splinter groups who carry out criminal attacks independent of the leadership’s instructions – a move that has seen the sect’s leadership deny such acts from time to time.
In fact, according to a source close to the operations of the sect, “some of the members of the group who are sometimes expected to return the arms that have been used for an operation or operations sometimes do not.  It is a few of these guys who give a bad name to the group and that is why sometimes the group’s high command comes out to deny some criminal acts attributed to it”.
This is even as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 17 southern states, yesterday, queried the rationale  behind the purported nomination of  Buhari to represent Boko Haram in the proposed  negotiation with government, describing it as an eye opener in the entire debacle.
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