{"id":18168,"date":"2018-04-07T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2018-04-07T20:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:16:58","slug":"kukah-amnesty-to-boko-haram-shows-fg-knows-something-we-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18168","title":{"rendered":"KUKAH: AMNESTY TO BOKO HARAM SHOWS FG KNOWS SOMETHING WE DON’T"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, says the amnesty the federal government granted to repentant Boko Haram members shows it is privy to some information.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Friday, Kukah said the offer of amnesty shows the insurgent group has not been weakened as the military claimed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kukah said he had raised the issue of amnesty to the insurgents in the past.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cI think I was one of the first people to raise the issue of amnesty about five years ago, I know how much we were vilified,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cBut I was pretty convinced about what I was saying that for me, if you mention the word amnesty, Nigerians think it simply means shaking hands and telling everybody to go home.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf Boko Haram has been perceived to be as so weakened as it is, we would not be talking about negotiation. So clearly, those with superior information and superior knowledge \u2013 which is what government is all about \u2013 know something that the rest of us don\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kukah also faulted the list of alleged looters recently released by the federal government.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He described it as \u201cuninspiring and diversionary\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFrom the last local government chairman, senator, president, governor; it would be nice to know one single politician who has run for office with what you call \u2018hard-earned\u2019 money,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cCorruption is not something that government fights, government might offer a lead, but it will get you to nowhere unless you have the buy-in of the people.\u201d\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Kukah, Catholic bishop of Sokoto diocese, says the amnesty the federal government granted to repentant Boko Haram members shows it is privy to some information. \u00a0 Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Friday, Kukah said the offer of amnesty shows the insurgent group has not been weakened as the military claimed. \u00a0 Kukah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[34,3431],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-boko-haram","tag-matthew-kukah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KUKAH.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4J2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18170,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions\/18170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}