The All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), on Thursday,
ruled out amnesty for Boko Haram insurgents if elected President on
March 28. He said the activities of the sect which
has so far killed over 13, 000 people since 2009, had become a source
of worry to many people within and outside the country.
Buhari was at the Royal Institute of
International Affairs, Chatham House, London, where he addressed the
world on various issues concerning the rescheduled general elections.
He said, “I think I will not go to
that office with that promise. I have said in my address how, at least
13,000 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram, how millions of them
have been displaced and are now kept in different camps called
Internally Displaced Persons camps.”
“Schools have been burnt, there is so
much disruption to normal life; people cannot farm and where they are
able to farm, they cannot harvest. So, granting amnesty to Boko Haram
will be unfair to the system.”
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