FORMER President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Dr. Dozie Ikedife,
has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to consider compensating the
families that lost their loved ones to the attacks of violent Islamic
sect, Boko Haram, and the carnage the group carried out before granting
amnesty to the sect.
Ikedife, who was the presidential liaison
officer for Anambra State during the Second Republic, spoke at the
inauguration of Anambra State chapter of Bilie Human Rights Initiative
(BHRI) at Nnewi.
According to Ikedife, if granting amnesty to
the Boko Haram Islamist sect will bring peace to Nigeria, it should be
considered and the people who claim to be Boko Haram group must be
identified and the carnage they have carried out equally evaluated.
His words: “If granting the Boko Haram group amnesty will bring peace
to Nigeria, let us consider it. But whom do you grant amnesty to? You
must identify the persons and then evaluate the carnage they have
carried out.
“Those people who lost their loved ones, husbands,
wives, children must be compensated because they have lost souls for no
reason or mistakes of their own except that they lived in the North.
“In this country, the constitution allows free living and free
enterprise in any part of the country. Is it then an offence that these
victims lived in the North? Why should you go and annihilate them,
destroy their property and businesses? So compensation should come
before amnesty.
“The second thing is to identify who they are.
They appear to be faceless, but they must be some people, because the
effect of their presence is visible everywhere. And then what are their
objectives and what are they really fighting for?
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