The
House of Representatives yesterday called on President Goodluck
Jonathan to grant amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect without further
delay in order to end the spate of violence in the country. Adopting a
motion on matters of urgent national importance sponsored by Rep.
Ibrahim Olaifa (AC, Oyo), MPs said the government and the nation have
everything to gain when the violence is ended. In his motion, Rep.
Olaifa argued that if the same government had given amnesty to Niger
Delta militants there was no reason that it won’t extend same to Boko
Haram members because they too are Nigerians who deserve to be treated
as such. “We have continued to lose lives and property everyday but
there is nothing to lose if we engage these people in dialogue and offer
them amnesty. They are Nigerians and we know that poverty pushed some
of them to engage in violence. We should turn them to peaceful human
beings instead of treating them as goats. Nigeria has nothing to lose,”
Olaifa said. The motion was not debated further but passed unanimously
when the question was put to vote by Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who
presided over the session
.DailyTrust
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