Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) call for prosecution of repentant Boko Haram terrorists

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has asked the Federal Government to prosecute all the repentant terrorists who recently surrendered to the Nigerian Army. 

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The ACF who spoke through its Chairman, Audu Ogbe said if government insist on freeing murderers like Boko Haram terrorists, all sectional agitators in custody must also be freed.

In a statement, titled: On Repentant Boko Haram Terrorists and the Principle of Equity and Justice, by its Chairman and former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, the ACF said: “We are currently witnessing large-scale surrender of large numbers of Boko Haram insurgents, among whom are bomb makers, commanders, arsonists, rapists, and child snatchers. Do we have good reasons to cheer and hope for an end to this decade-old insanity? “Is ‘I am sorry’ enough to bring relief to Nigerians and the thousands of the dead and the maimed? What of those victims bombed in churches, mosques, schools, and markets?

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“What 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 (Sunday) Ighohos or ESN of Nigeria? None.

“So, 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.

“We join the Governor of Borno State; the Shehu of Borno; Senator Ali Ndume and millions of Nigerians in pondering this development. 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.”

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Also, the Nigerian Army has said another 186 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram have surrendered to Nigerian troops.

Army spokesperson Onyema Nwachukwu, a Brig.-Gen. announced this in a statement on Monday.

The Army had, at least on four previous occasions, said some terrorists “had repented and embraced peace”.

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In the Monday statement, the Army said the 186 terrorists consisted of their wives and other family members.

The statement explained that it was as a result of this the other terrorists who refused to surrender resorted to “cheap propaganda”.

There have been mixed feelings, anger in many cases, among Nigerians over the olive branch offered by the Federal Government to the insurgents who have been responsible for the death of hundreds of Nigerians and displacement in the over a decade long conflict.

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