Posted on: 12:37 Sat, 31 May 2014

Lawmaker Bitrus Kaze who represents Jos South/Jos East in the House of Representatives has described the reported efforts of the Federal Government to offer amnesty to Boko Haram sect despite its continued bombings and killings of innocent citizens as a step in the wrong direction.

On Friday, in a statement issued in Jos, Hon. Bitrus Kaze stressed that such effort, coming at a time the international community has declared to support Nigeria to stamp out terrorism, will boomerang.

His stated, “I do not subscribe to any form of dialogue with terrorists; we will not grow weary of making the point resoundingly clear that no country the world over has succeeded in curbing the menace that way.

“Motivated by the tension, anxiety and sense of fear permeating the nation as a result of terrorism, those who canvass this awkward idea cannot be right. This should explain exactly why the Alhaji Kabiru Turaki dialogue committee was and will continue to be a perpetual failure.”

He recalled that Boko Haram members earlier rebuffed the attempt made by President Jonathan to offer amnesty to them in April 2013 adding that “the terrorists categorically declined and instead offered amnesty to Mr. President.”

This amnesty “coming shortly after securing a reluctant approval from both Houses of the National Assembly, and when global outrage against the abduction of about 200 school girls from Chibok gingered foreign collaboration, the renewed offer of amnesty to the Boko Haram can’t be a step in the right direction as they continue to bomb and kill people.”