Arewa Youths Urge Northern Governors To Grant AmnestyTo Boko Haram
The national leadership of Arewa Youth Forum (AYF), at the end of an emergency meeting today in Kaduna urged the 19 Northern Governors to shun PresidentGoodluck Jonathan’s antics and grant amnesty to Boko Haram and all the other groups responsible for the restiveness in Northern Nigeria. In a statement signedby its president, Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu, AYF said that this position has becomeexpedient because the Northis on the verge of “extinction and collapse,” and that there may no longerbe a Northern Nigerian region as a political and geographical entity within thelarger Sovereign State of Nigeria.
Full text of the statement:
“The Arewa Youth Forum (AYF) held an emergency meeting in Kaduna today (22nd March 2013) where theforum extensively discussed the State of the Nation and as well the ongoing challenges and possible crises of extinction threatening Northern Nigeria.We have been following with utter dismay and despair howPresident Goodluck Jonathan's led Federal Government has been playingpolitics and exhibiting such sophistry and a high sense of insensitivity in handling the Boko Haram insurgency and further compounding the series of challenges confronting Northern Nigeria.
“As at today, our economy isgone; the aged-long togetherness of Northern Christians and Muslims is totally gone. There is also nopolitical cohesion in the North. And there is no sign that this ugly trend can be contained, if the Federal Government continues its flagrant display of insensitivity and nonchalancethen, we will be threading thepath of fire and bloodshed. It is based on all these concerns that Arewa Youth Forum resolves as follows:
“That the 19 Northern State Governors, should as a matter of preserving the Northern Nigerian region from extinction and attaining a Failed State status, grant AMNESTY to the Boko Haram sect and all other groups responsible for the restiveness in Northern Nigeria. This is important, all Northern Governors, members of National and State Assemblies must rise, roll their sleeves because if the situation persists, there may not be a Northern Nigerian region again as a political and geographical entity in the larger SovereignState of Nigeria.
“The politicization of the Boko Haram issue has done more damage than good to the reality of the situation. In view of the fact that despite all the brouhaha, the solutionhas not been found owing to the deliberate politicization by governments, religious organizations, elite, security agencies and all parties involved. It is clear that all parties involved in this matter are not sincere, hencewe beseech all parties to fear God and separate ego and face reality, going by theexcruciating situation ordinary Northerners are going through.
“Finally, the Northern Governors should bear in mind that posterity will hold them accountable if they fail to act fast, being the sub-heads of the region. It must be sincere, honest and without recourse to religious differences, rather act fast and save the best for the last.” http://sunnewsonline.net/news/youths-urge-northern-governors-to-grant-amnesty-to-boko-haram

Goodbye Northern Nigeria............R I P

For me i dont want the Fg to grant them amensty. If there governors can do it let them do it. Afterall their brothers are the ones doing all the killings

What of the monthly allowance each of the northern governors is paying presently to boko haram from their allocations.

I hope the amnesty would be simply pardon and not a means to transfer funds to criminals and murderers for the grievous crime they have committed to humanity.

Soon, if they don't rise now, population will reduce, economy destroy. No more peace. They will become refugee in this country. Now is the time!

wazobia55: Soon, if they don't rise now, population will reduce, economy destroy. No more peace. They will become refugee in this country. Now is the time!

not only in d north...all over d country dia wud b refugees,y?kos 9ja z headin 4 anoda civil war.

Boss13: I hope the amnesty would be simply pardon and not a means to transfer funds to criminals and murderers for the grievous crime they have committed to humanity.

lol,simple pardon ke?see as u dey talk as if no b 9ja u dey...amnesty 4 9ja na jst to spend money anyhow.