President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday approved the setting up of a committee to consider the issue of granting amnesty to members of Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in the northern part of the country, according to a competent Presidency source. The decision was
reached at a three-hour meeting of the National Security and Defence Council presided over by the president at the State House.
The Boko Haram insurgency has led to the deaths of over 3,000 people, since 2009.
The committee was given two weeks to submit its report, the News Agency of Nigeria reported, quoting sources.
According to the source, the president summoned the emergency security meeting in response to calls on the government by various interest groups to grant amnesty to the insurgent Boko Haram sect.
Jonathan has come under intense pressure over the issue, with politicians from the country’s violence-torn north as well as Nigeria’s highest Muslim spiritual figure, the Sultan of Sokoto, calling for an amnesty deal.
The source said that the committee would consider the possibility of an amnesty for the members of the sect and outline the modalities for implementing it.
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