Hear Senator Ahmad Zannah Khalifa who represents Borno Central Senatorial District in the Senate: We have been talking to the boys, but, unfortunately, government has been playing a double standard. They will say they want to go into negotiation (with Boko Haram), at the same time, they will be attacking the boys, if there is negotiation taking place, there is bound to a cease fire but it has never been so. They are talking about negotiation just for the sake of it; they don’t have the intention and this has infuriated the boys in such a way that they don’t have confidence that the government will negotiate with them and give them amnesty. So it is better for them to die fighting. I think this is the notion they have and eventually they found out that the military is incapable or unwilling to eliminate them; that unwillingness emboldened them to come and attack even where there is a military barrack. You can take the example of the Maiduguri airport, the Bama barrack and the Mongono barrack attacks; all these things emboldened them and we are saying our security agencies are not properly armed like the Boko Haram. We want the world to know that government has not equipped the military as being claimed. On emergency rule, he said: It failed woefully, it achieved nothing and it was not intended to achieve anything, it was just to satisfy a certain section of the country while my own people were being killed. Before the dialogue committee went to Maiduguri, all the detainees in detention of government were killed and that was immediately after the state of emergency was imposed. He spoke to Vanguard newspaper.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:34:50 +0000
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