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| Blood on their hands - The Arewa connection to Boko Haram |
President Goodluck Jonathan's proposed plan to grant amnesty to members of the terrorist Islamic organization, Boko Haram has been rejected by its key leadership, the Shura Council, which is the supreme decision-making organ of the terrorist organization, reports say.
According to reliable sources within the Intelligence community, the group are said to be wary of the real motives of its primary benefactors, the Northern elite in asking the Nigerian government to grant them amnesty.
The group is said to have intimated embedded Intelligence sources that justice could only be found in the Quran and that they (Boko Haram) do not recognize the Nigerian Constitution, while also disavowing the legitimacy of Nigeria's democratically elected government.
The Borno State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Mr Inuwa Bwala, has however appealed to the terrorist Islamic sect to see reason and embrace dialogue, with a view to restoring lasting peace in Borno State and the entire North.
CC has gathered that there are serious rumblings within the Nigerian Intelligence community as well as the upper hierarchies of government as to the justification and reasoning behind granting amnesty to a group (Boko Haram), that has engaged in an orgy of systematic killings of innocent people, based upon their victims' ethnicity and religious affiliation (Christianity).
CC has also been reliably informed that there is credible information available to the Service Chiefs, the Senate and House leaders, as well as the Presidency, that ties the sponsorship of Boko Haram and terrorist groups in the North to top Northern leaders, who still felt aggrieved by the results of the last Presidential Elections in Nigeria.
According to reliable Intelligence sources, a certain former military dictator and another prominent former leader of the ruling PDP, still with aspirations of becoming President, are in-fact the primary sponsors of these terrorist groups.
Making things even more complicated is the fact that various international and local watchers of events, with influence in the international community, as it relates to potential legal prosecution on the basis of genocide and war crimes, are miffed that the Nigerian government would even consider granting amnesty to a group of terrorists, who have shown absolutely no remorse and actually have no justifiable basis for their actions.
Their victims have been mostly innocent civilians (including women and children) who simply were of a different ethnic or religious persuasion.
More to follow.
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