A political and cultural group of northern leaders, the Arewa Consultative Forum has called on the federal government to prosecute repentant insurgents.<\/p>\n
Recall that the Nigerian Army over the past weeks had taken custody of over 100 repentant insurgents who\u00a0surrendered to troops in the north-east.<\/p>\n
Some of the Boko Haram leaders who surrendered had also\u00a0asked Nigerians for forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development, a former minister of agriculture and chairman of the ACF, Audu Ogbe via a statement released on Tuesday said apology isn\u2019t enough, adding that the motive of the insurgents is questionable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are currently witnessing large scale surrender of large numbers of Boko Haram insurgents, among whom are bomb makers, commanders, arsonists, rapists, and child snatchers,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we have good reason to cheer and hope for an end to this decade-old insanity? Is \u2018I am sorry\u2019 enough to bring relief to Nigerians and the thousands of dead and maimed? What of those victims bombed in the churches, mosques, schools, and markets?<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat of all the men and women in uniform murdered by them? Who can count the thousands of widows and orphans they have created? And what is the difference between them and the Ighoho\u2019s or ESN of Nigeria? None.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what do we do with them? Should we just embrace them and trust them wholesale? Are their moves informed by altruistic repentance? We seriously doubt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe join the Governor of Borno, The Shehu of Borno, Senator Ndume and millions of Nigerians in pondering over this development and our simple advice is: Bring them to trial, or free all others presently in custody anywhere, while we Nigerians plead guilty of naivety and gullibility in the extreme, punishable by more insurrection and anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A political and cultural group of northern leaders, the Arewa Consultative Forum has called on the federal government to prosecute repentant insurgents. Recall that the Nigerian Army over the past weeks had taken custody of over 100 repentant insurgents who\u00a0surrendered to troops in the north-east. Some of the Boko Haram leaders who surrendered had also\u00a0asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":72471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1416,8491,426,2963,1247],"class_list":["post-72461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-arewa-consultative-forum","tag-audu-ogbe","tag-boko-haram","tag-insurgents","tag-north-east"],"yoast_head":"\n