- Dr Fredrick Fasehun has chided the federal government for its reported amnesty offer to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group
- The OPC founder stated that the development shows that the government has been merely spewing lies and propaganda about defeating the insurgents
- He stated that Boko Haram does not deserve to be pardoned, and demanded that members of the group should be made to face justice in military courts
The federal government’s amnesty offer to Boko Haram insurgents has been condemned by the founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr Fredrick Fasehun, Punch reports.
In a statement released on Wednesday, March 28, the OPC founder described the move as an insult to the dead, maimed and internally displaced victims of the anti-western education terrorists.
NAIJ.com gathers that Fasehun also described the offer as “irrational and inciting,” and questioned the government’s rationale. He further stated that the offer is proof that the government’s claim of defeating the terrorist group was simply propaganda.
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He said: “Offering amnesty to a world-acclaimed terrorist organisation is the most unequivocal testimonial that government has been merely spewing lies and propaganda about defeating Boko Haram.
“If the government says it has defeated Boko Haram, technically or completely, then what is the rationale for offering pardon to these terrorists? Instead, the government should commit its energy to totally breaking Boko Haram and other insurgents, just like Iraq has done to ISIS.”
Fasehun insisted that the dreaded terrorist sect doe not deserve to be pardoned.
“Boko Haram does not deserve pardon because it is an unapologetic terrorist gang whose unprovoked and large-scale killing of innocent civilians places it in the league of Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and ISIL.We demand that they be brought to justice," he added.
According to Fasehun, members of the terrorist group should face military court martial, instead of being tried in regular courts. He also called for the death sentence on those found guilty.
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Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, March 23, said the federal government is ready to offer amnesty to members of the Boko Haram sect that are willing to drop their arms.
The president said this at a meeting with the schoolgirls who recently regained freedom after they were abducted from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state by Boko Haram terrorists.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that Osai Ojigbo, the director of Amnesty International, condemned Boko Haram’s latest attacks on aid workers in Rann in Borno, and the abduction of 110 school girls in Dapchi, Yobe state.
Ojigbo said the body outrightly objects to the mindless killing and series of abduction committed by Boko Haram terrorists and suspected herdsmen throughout the country especially in the northern region of Nigeria.
He said prevalent destruction of lives in the country by terrorist groups reveal that they are not giving up on their move to inflict horror and pain in the bodies and minds of Nigerians.
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Source: Naija.ng