They were called terrorists, insurgents, religious extremists, political killers, Boko Haram and finally ghosts. They were told that amnesty is for humans and not ghosts. But suddenly, here comes a package for ghosts. Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU in this special piece chronicles the genesis, the politics and latest amnesty offer to Boko Haram Islamic sect.

Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan succumbed to the pressures to grant presidential amnesty to members of Boko Haram sect.

In the first part of this report, JONAH NWOKPOKU noted that not only did the train which moved from Iddo at noon develop faults at Ijoko and Ibadan, but it didn’t wait up to 10 minutes at Jebba although 85 per cent of the passengers were still on the ground.

Mid March 2013, over 2,000 Nigerians who have accepted their fate and changed their nationality in obedience to the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun were attacked and ejected, causing them to return to Nigeria as refugees.

After prolonged prevarication on the issue of granting amnesty to members of the Jama’atul Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, the move by the Presidency, last week, setting up a committee to explore the possibility of redeeming the security situation in the northern part of the country is being received with mixed feelings. This report presents how members of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, extracted the goodwill from President Goodluck Jonathan.