Obasanjo: Niger-Delta Amnesty Influenced Boko Haram
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo noted that Niger Delta
amnesty programme influenced insurgency in the Northeast, defining the
agenda as a failure.
Former president also said that the Jonathan administration’s tactic to restrict the activities of the terrorists “had
taken the form of throwing money at the problem, particularly stuffing
the pockets and bank of the militants’ leadership with obscene cash in
reckless and unsustainable manner.”
Obasanjo uttered these opinions in his latest book, “My Watch”, a three-volume autobiography which was unveiled in Lagos despite a warning court order got by the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, against the publication or presentation of the book.
He explained that the way and manner in which the militants were deepened by the Federal Government (FG) powered the Boko Haram terrorists.
“The idea is that ‘what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’ After that (Niger Delta amnesty programme) is accomplished, I suppose the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in the south east will make their own demand, which of necessity must heeded. And finally, Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the south west will not be left out,” Obasanjo stated.
The former president also smashed out at the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and the incumbent, President Jonathan-led administration on security under their watch, emphasizing that it was one of the things that “got me worried.”
Speaking on Jonathan’s answer to the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, Obasanjo said: “The one incident that overtly and graphically exposed the ineptitude, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, carelessness, cluelessness, callousness, insensitivity and selfishness of Goodluck Jonathan was the abduction of about 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State by Boko Haram.
“The reaction and attitude of our president and his household was that of non-belief, to the extent that 18 days passed before he grudgingly conceded to accept the reality of the abduction. If serious action had been taken within 48 hours, the story could have been different. Seventy-two hours was, for me, too late. After all, there would have been logistics required for moving almost 390 girls through the bush and small settlements by the Boko Haram.”
However, the chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP, Buruji Kashamu, threatened to drag Obasanjo to court for contempt of the court.
He faulted Obasanjo of going ahead to launch his memoirs in spite of a court order restraining him.
The former president has finally launched his controversial autobiography ‘My Watch’ at the Lagos Country club Ikeja, Lagos, on December 9, 2014 despite the court’s order.
Former President Obasanjo at the presentation of his book in Lagos.
Obasanjo uttered these opinions in his latest book, “My Watch”, a three-volume autobiography which was unveiled in Lagos despite a warning court order got by the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, against the publication or presentation of the book.
He explained that the way and manner in which the militants were deepened by the Federal Government (FG) powered the Boko Haram terrorists.
“The idea is that ‘what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’ After that (Niger Delta amnesty programme) is accomplished, I suppose the Movement for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in the south east will make their own demand, which of necessity must heeded. And finally, Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) in the south west will not be left out,” Obasanjo stated.
The former president also smashed out at the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and the incumbent, President Jonathan-led administration on security under their watch, emphasizing that it was one of the things that “got me worried.”
Speaking on Jonathan’s answer to the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, Obasanjo said: “The one incident that overtly and graphically exposed the ineptitude, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, carelessness, cluelessness, callousness, insensitivity and selfishness of Goodluck Jonathan was the abduction of about 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State by Boko Haram.
“The reaction and attitude of our president and his household was that of non-belief, to the extent that 18 days passed before he grudgingly conceded to accept the reality of the abduction. If serious action had been taken within 48 hours, the story could have been different. Seventy-two hours was, for me, too late. After all, there would have been logistics required for moving almost 390 girls through the bush and small settlements by the Boko Haram.”
However, the chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP, Buruji Kashamu, threatened to drag Obasanjo to court for contempt of the court.
He faulted Obasanjo of going ahead to launch his memoirs in spite of a court order restraining him.
The former president has finally launched his controversial autobiography ‘My Watch’ at the Lagos Country club Ikeja, Lagos, on December 9, 2014 despite the court’s order.
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