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PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN 4TH L) ; VICE-PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO (6TH L) WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON DIALOGUE AND PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE NORTH AFTER THEIR
INAUGURATION IN ABUJA ON WEDNESDAY.
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA – Barely 24-hours after President Goodluck Jonathan
inaugurated the Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security
Challenges in the North, an Abuja based legal practitioner, Mr. Silas Onu,
Thursday, approached the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, asking it to
abort plans by the Federal Government to grant amnesty to the Boko Haram
Islamic sect.
Besides, Onu, who maintained that granting amnesty to the
sect would entrench a very dangerous precedent in the national polity, also
prayed the court to issue a consequential order halting the continuation of
amnesty programme across the country.
He urged the high court to go ahead and halt further
payments to ex-militants in the oil rich Niger Delta region were President
Jonathan hails from.
It will be recalled that the federal government had in June
2009 approved an offer of unconditional amnesty for members of the Niger Delta
militants.
The government, on Wednesday, inaugurated a 27-man committee
with a mandate to fashion out modalities with a view to getting insurgent
groups in the Northern part of the country to embrace amnesty.
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