Boko Haram Rejects Amnesty …Says, Group Has Done Nothing Wrong

The Boko Haram sect has rejected the pardon and peace initiative being planned by the Federal Government.

In an audio message released to the media, yesterday, the leader of the Islamist sect, Mallam Abubakar Shekau, stated that his group had not done any wrong that warrants being pardoned.

In his opinion, it should be the other way round, that is, the sect should grant pardon to the Federal Government for the many atrocities, he alleged, had been committed against Muslims.

Days ago, the Federal Government had constituted a panel to look into the propriety or otherwise of granting pardon to Boko Haram members who have unleashed terror on innocent Nigerians in the North.

Shekau, who spoke in Hausa language, affirmed that the group was out to avenge the killing of Muslims and the “destruction of Islam”.

“The government is talking about granting amnesty to us. What have we done? On the contrary, it is we that should grant you a pardon”, Shekau said in the audio message.

An indication that the sect might truly not be interested in the proposed amnesty deal emerged last Tuesday when some Borno State Government officials were gunned down.

That was followed by an attack that was carried out on a police station in Yobe State, in the early hours of yesterday.

Four policemen were killed in the exchange of gunfire at the police station and their rifles were taken away.

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