The Pan-Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum,
has kicked against the reintegration of repentant Boko Haram insurgents
into the society.
The National Chairman of the group, Chief Audu
Ogbeh, said the repentant Boko Haram members should be prosecuted for
the crimes committed against Nigerians.
Ogbeh, a former Minister
of Agriculture, said this in a statement he personally signed and
released by the National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe
in Kaduna on Tuesday.
The statement was entitled, ‘On repentant Boko Haram Terrorists and the Principle of Equity and Justice’.
It
read, “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.
44 Boko Haram members found dead in prison
“Do
we have good reason 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
the churches, mosques, schools, and markets? What of all the men and
women in uniform murdered by them?
“Who can count the thousands of widows and orphans they have created?
“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 (Babagana Zulum),
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.”
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