{"id":63451,"date":"2013-04-11T21:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/rights-group-slams-fg-over-amnesty-for-boko-haram\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T21:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T21:14:20","slug":"rights-group-slams-fg-over-amnesty-for-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/11\/rights-group-slams-fg-over-amnesty-for-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights group slams FG over amnesty for Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.514913657771\">\n<p>By Nnamdi Ojiego<\/p>\n<p>A human rights group, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, has slammed the planned amnesty for the Boko Haram sect .<\/p>\n<p>According to YCRI, President Jonathan should \u201cdraw a red line between politics and government policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demonstrates that the presidency seems to act before thinking of the impact of its actions. This could lead the country to ruins in no distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YCRI through its Director of International Relations, Comrade Efemena Agadama, said granting amnesty to the\u00a0 sect would provide the group opportunity to rebuild their broken structures and re-arm themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presidency should also note that granting Boko Haram amnesty and paying them huge sums of money means that there is a reward for monumental destruction and mass murder \u2013 there are worse implications that the government must evaluate before pushing the country into a legalised cycle of terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group cautioned those calling for amnesty for boko haram not to play politics with lives of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Nnamdi Ojiego A human rights group, Youth and Conflict Resolution Initiatives, YCRI, has slammed the planned amnesty for the Boko Haram sect . According to YCRI, President Jonathan should \u201cdraw a red line between politics and government policies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}