Turaki doesn’t know the meaning of ceasefire

Turaki doesn’t know the meaning of ceasefire
—Rev. Abare Kallah, Chairman, Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN), Gombe State
Chapter What is ceasefire in this aspect? He doesn’t
know the meaning of ceasefire; meaning after
Ramadan, the thing continues, right? I mean,
the Federal Government has not succeeded.
The issue of Emergency rule in the three
states has failed if that is the case. Well, I can see two things happening. We have divergent
opinions.



President Goodluck Jonathan and the ‘ghosts’ On one hand, the federal government is taking
active measures by using force to deal with
Boko Haram issue. On the other hand again, it
is saying you have an avenue to dialogue with
to see if you can overcome this problem. These are really the two things I can see but in
whatever form, one thing I know that is clear to
me is that there are also lots of contradictions
if there is no maintenance of consistency from
the Federal Government authority. From Day one, there are a lot of calls from
different angles on the issue of dialogue with
Boko Haram, you did not yield to it. Later there
was call of amnesty for Boko Haram and Boko
Haram said they are the ones to give amnesty
to the federal government. So, you find it very difficult to understand what
is really happening and who are these Boko
Haram members that can take hostage the
federal government. Now one of things I see
clearly; that there is a lot of politics attached to
it despite the religious inclination that people are talking about. But as religious leader, that is not the major
issue. Religion issue in the history of the world
has never become a major cause of conflict
because all of us have one or two claims to the
preaching of peace and peaceful co-existence. So, there is a way we can we tell ourselves the
truth but politicians should be able to say
something truthful. What is happening in other
countries like Egypt is really a lesson for us to
understand that definitely it is the political
class that is causing all the confusion in the world. For me, I just want to tell you that there is high
contradiction inspite the involvement of
military three states of the north and yet there
is no open confusion by the Boko
Harma inspite of the claims and testimonies
that they have bombarded their camps and other trainings grounds yet we have not seen
practical proofs that yes these people are open
for dialogue; then something is still on the
ground that is yet to be revealed. Bottomline Most analysts believe that it has been timpani
of contradictions on the part of the Federal
Government. They also believe that a situation
where the government on one breath
pronounces the groups illegal and on another
breath resumes talks with them amounts to double standard and totally jeopardizes its
efforts to stamp out terrorisms on the shores
of the country. Again, the military operations in the three
States of the north might not have handsomely
paid off judging from the recent killing in Yobe
State. This, they said leaves them wondering how
much blood of innocent Nigerians the
authorities would want to see spilled before
genuine commitment can be made to protect
the lives of citizens which is the primary
function of every government. They posited however that one of the ways of
achieving that is to stop giving unnecessary
palliatives to any perceived terrorist
organizations and deal with them according,
such that will make the Chairman, Boko Haram
Amnesty Committee and Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji Tanimu Musa to surrender his
Chairmanship.