Jonathan Rejects Amnesty for Boko Haram

President Goodluck Jonathan has  rejected calls that he should grant Amnesty  to members of the Boko Haram sect.

Reports from Maiduguri said the president who visited  Borno and Yobe States today  for the first time since the insurgency began said  FG would not  grant Amnesty to  “ghosts”, an allusion to the mercurial nature of Boko Haram members.

The sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Saad  recently urged the federal government to grant amnesty to the sect members.

It was late President Umaru YarAdua’s amnesty for Niger Delta militants that brought a seeming end to that crisis.