Boko Haram Promises Cease Fire …Lists Conditions For Dialogue With FG

L-R:Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, his Cross River State counterpart, Liyel Imoke and Vice President Namadi Sambo, at a Special Boundary meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Wednesday.

Members of Jama’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad also known as Boko Haram have said they are now willing to cease fire and stop all atrocities being perpetrated by the group and work against other existing groups if the government will truly heed to their demands.

The acclaimed spokesman of the group, Abu Mohammed Ibn Abdulazeez, who doubles as the second-in-command (Amir) to their leader Imam Abubakar Shekau revealed this at a press conference in Maiduguri yesterday  that if the state and the federal government want the group to cease fire completely, then former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff must be arrested and prosecuted according to the law of the land.

He also said that apart from the arrest of Senator Ali Sheriff, government should compensate the group and rebuild their places of worship which were destroyed during 2009 uprising.

Abu Abdulazeez further stressed that  all their members who were arrested and were under the custody of security agencies must be released with immediate effect, and all their wives who were displaced following the crises as well as their children must be rehabilitated into the society to create room for a fruitful dialogue with the Federal Government.

He pointed out that for a dialogue to take place, it must be through the following elders: Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno, former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, former Yobe State Governor, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Ambassador Gaji Galtimari and Barr Aisha Alkali Wakil and her husband, Barr Alkali Wakil, insisting that the dialogue must not take place in Nigeria but Saudi Arabia,

Abu Abdulazeez also said that the group had chosen five members to mediate on their behalf; listing them to include himself (Abu Mohammed Abdulazeez), Abu Abbas, Sheikh Ibrahim Yusuf, Sheikh Sani Kontogora and Mamman Nur

He also said that the burning of old and newly constructed primary schools witnessed across the state were not masterminded by the sect, insisting that the burning of such places were carried out by aggrieved politicians who were denied contracts from the state government.