Northern leaders call for Amnesty Commission
April 6, 2013
Northern leaders are pushing for a legal backing to the granting of amnesty to aggrieved individuals who have taken up arms against the state in form of the establishment of an Amnesty Commission backed by law.
The northern leaders have written to President Goodluck Jonathan on the need to set up such a commission which they said will be empowered to work out the process of granting amnesty in the country.
Former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof Ango Abdullahi told the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) monitored in Kaduna that they have asked the government to establish an Amnesty Commission which will have the backing of law and operate independently in granting amnesty to members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
He said that when the commission is established, men of integrity and honesty should be appointed into the Commission, adding that doing so will ensure that the desired objectives of granting amnesty to members of the sect members will be achieved.
He said “we went with this advice in writing. Our thinking was that if the government felt it would be granting amnesty just like that, then there should be an authoritative body whose responsibility will be to set up how this amnesty will be granted, and also those affected will not be afraid to come out.
“That was the reason we said so. We did not even asked for the setting up of a committee. We suggested for the establishment of an amnesty commission, a commission is different from a committee but I hope it is a step that will lead to the commission.
“If a commission is established by law, it is independent and with honest individuals appointed to lead it, they will set up the process through which the desired objectives would be achieved,” he said.
The former Presidential Adviser on Food Security however decline to comment on whether the northern elders pressured President Jonathan into granting amnesty to members of the sect, saying “I can’t say that, but perhaps those who were against it before realized that force cannot solve the problem.
“Guns will not solve the problem, if all prisons will be full with those suspected, it won’t solve the problem. The only solution is to go back to the people, let them speak out their problems and grievances on the nation’s state of affairs. That’s how we can get a clue to the problem.”
-{The Nation}
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