[Guardian Ng] BAUCHI State governor, Mallam Isah Yuguda, has labelled those kicking against the amnesty package extended to Boko Haram... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
as criminal and politically-motivated members of the sect.
Hence, it is left for the government to deal with such members when the real Boko Haram have accepted the amnesty proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
Yuguda told journalists in Lagos on Saturday that the real members of the sect, who have various problems agitating their minds, would accept the amnesty offer.
The governor also addressed other issues in the polity, denying there was crisis in the Nigerian Governors Forum and that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would win 35 of the 36 states in the next elections.
On the matter of Boko Haram, the governor said that no true Mohammedan would pick up weapons and kill a fellow man.
He urged the government to look into joblessness and illiteracy that might have prompted the sect members to embark on unholy attacks against the people.
Maintaining that there were criminal elements among the sect pushing for rejection of the amnesty offer, the governor said: "On the issue of Boko Haram, amnesty has been given to the real Boko Haram and I believe they are willing to accept that.
"That is my belief but you know there is the criminal Boko Haram and there is the real Boko Haram. But the criminal and the political Boko Haram are the armed robbers and that arm of politicians that call themselves Boko Haram and they go about attacking people.
"Maybe, it is the criminal Boko Haram that are responding to say that they don't want amnesty because they have a different intention.
"Some of them are gunrunners, some of them are armed robbers and some of them are doing that on behalf of politicians. So, they just hide under Boko Haram and perpetrate evil."