Boko Haram has become a terrifying force that has continue to undermine the public confidence in the present administration. When the group launched its first bombing attack in 2010, most people complacently assumed that the homogenous militants could be controlled, although undoubtedly dangerous, pretty tamed compared to their counterparts.

Today, the country has recorded series of attacks in different part of the country ranging from killings of innocent people, destruction of properties and continued threat of life everyday. Even it has gotten to the level that foreign organizations has started to wade in to the situation by providing relief materials to victims of the menace(is this Haiti or Sunami?. Few weeks ago, there were rumour that the sect has agreed to ceasefire and to dialogue with the government but the situation took a different dimension when the their leader, Shekau came out to say that they have never proposed for any dialogue.

Now, some notable Nigerians are clamoring for the sect to be granted amnesty by the federal government. Nairalanders, lets look at this development critically, could granting amnesty to the sect be the way forward out of the mess we found ourself in this country?

No, because they are ghosts who have refused to show their faces unlike the Niger-Delta militants

they can never be peace when their is no justice. I am very sure a group bigger than boko haram will replace them if we grant this killers armnesty. Why do we like rewarding crime in this country?

What is Amnesty

The shld also grant amnesty to unemploy youth.

What are they killing and burning churches for? I say no.

No!

The problem is will they agree .?

If we grant them Amnesty, then how do will deal with the memory that goes with those who lost their love ones in their attack against the State and humanity? What happen to Justice?

@Op,
Boko Haram is not any terrifying force. They are a bunch of rag-tag cowards who hide behind women and children. And the present administration is not undermine by boko haram. Rather it is the members of boko haram that are undermining themselves by playing hide and seek with JTF bullets. Several of them are now cold specimen or languishing in various jails across the country. Now you could say that their sponsors may be largely unscathed by their activities, but I can tell you that with several arrests and recovering of weapon cache, the sponsors are seeing their investment go down the drain. As the dragnet encircles them, the cry for amnesty will only get louder. This we understand, but are not moved by.

Furthermore, many members of the JTF have undergone counter-terrorism/insurgency training, haunting down and dispatching members of boko haram to join the growing queue for scarce virgins, is the best way they can put their training to use. And we are happy to pay them (JTF) for that!

The amnesty boko haram members deserve is the one they grant themselves. They should drop their weapons and melt back into the civil population while praying for forgiveness for their sins. God may forgive them, but the JTF should grant them hot bullet just between the eyes as reward for their effort, if they fail to grant themselves amnesty! And if you are one of them, I say repent for JTF bullet is at hand!

touch_me_hard: No, because they are ghosts who have refused to show their faces unlike the Niger-Delta militants

No ooo amnesty my foot, who among u can dialogue with a ghost n over what? FG no amnesty pls. Its fire for fire.

Find them, kill them, all of them.

GIVING THEM AMNESTY FOR WHAT CAUSE ...
TEAM 'HELL NO.......

No Way! No amnesty to murderers and terrorists

Neverrrrrrrr!!!!! Jst 2 serve as detterant 2 others. N pls dey shld stop compairing dem 2 d millitants whose aims was never 2 kill. Dis baggars need 2 b tot a lesson

Dr. Wise:
What is Amnesty

amnesty is the name of president jonathans second son

Dr. Wise:
What is Amnesty

Dr. Wise:
What is Amnesty

amnesty is the name of president jonathans second son

I disagree,No amnesty for boko boys the JTF shud keep pounding them including there sponsors

There shouldnt be any sort of amnesty for criminals that cause attrocities in the land,instead they should be dealt with to the root including the sponsorer and all involved.

considering giving them amnesty is encouraging others to cause chaos and hoping for the same treament .

Boko haram has committed so much atrocities against humanity. There is no need to grant them amnesty because God can never and will never grant amnesty to devil and his agents. They need to be wiped off the surface of this earth as their role model,the devil will be put to death at end.

Grant them Amnesty and see if i won't start up my own militant group...

Why not? Grant them amnesty, and get ready to face another upsurge of terrorism/militancy.....

Like Unknown Member said, The Federal do not and should never ever negotiate with terrorists....

We av a lot of jobless youths around, and if terrorism is seen as a way of making good money, then some people are ready to pick-up arms....

Yes, but no form of currency, weather local or international, naira, dollar or even cedes, shld be given to them, the govt. Shld not waiste niger deltas money to send them to any form of rehab. Programme be it locally or internationally, reasons, they fighting against western education and as such, can not giv them what they fighting against, the only form of amnesty i recommend for them, is jtf...

PLEASE ABEG TELL GOVERNMENT OH, UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS NEED AMNESTY MORE THAT ANY SET OF PEOPLE

Sweetapple007: The shld also grant amnesty to unemploy youth.

NO...if the FG grant those boko rats amnesty,....they should be ready for a more deadly sophisticated purposeless group..

Since the fg can't control their madness they should grant them amnesty so peace can rain. I m tired of hearing of killing and bombiing.

No way,they are faceless.

if them want,our opinion no count.

BOKO BOYZ are funded by Northern elite with political motive JAMB is another evil that is more coordinated and might be worse, no amnesty for faceless bloodsucking criminals

Until i see dem,,,NO!!!