Garba Shehu, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, has described the amnesty the president granted to
Boko Haram members as a “win-win situation.”
While receiving the freed Dapchi
schoolgirls on March 23, Buhari had said the federal government was willing to
accept the unconditional laying down of arms by repentant insurgents.
Speaking at an interactive
session with state house correspondents during the weekend, Shehu said the
amnesty would help the insurgents to “be useful to the nation.”
He also said the measure would
help the government save cost by channelling funds used in the war against
insurgency to other areas.
“It is proverbially said all wars
end up in the boardroom. You can defeat people technically on the field but at
the end, you must come to the conference room to resolve all issues ” he said.
“So, if Boko Haram would lay down
their arms and stop fighting and stop preaching their negative ideology, the
country should be able to embrace them; welcome all of them so that they
continue to live normal lives and be useful to the nation.
“What that means is that we will
be saving cost, saving lives that are being lost through bombing, killing of
service personnel and we will be saving money that we are using to procure
weapons so that such money can go into services and infrastructure and welfare
of the citizens of this country. It is a win-win situation.”
The presidential spokesman
described as unfair, allegations that the president is shielding herdsmen
accused of killings.
He said the allegations is a
negative effect of the social media, adding: “This is an administration that
has done extremely well and to a president who has sworn to an oath to defend
the constitution and protect every life and property, it is very unfair and
uncharitable to say that he will shield anybody.”
He said it has to take everyone
at various levels of authority to shield the accused from the law.
“The president controls only one
layer of authority, what are the governors doing? Is the social media also
saying that the governors are protecting the herdsmen from the law, are they
saying the local government are also protecting them?” he asked.
“This is a president whose
passion is not even for the office, even when everyone is asking him to go for
a second term he is keeping quiet because his focus remains the nation and the
problem of the country.”
Shehu said the president “richly”
deserves a second term in office.
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