Kidnap Of Shettima Ali Monguno : Boko Haram Amnesty Committee In Crucial Talks

[Shola Sholaz]

24 hours after the abduction of 87-year old
statesman, Alhaji Shettima Ali Monguno, Sunday
Vanguard learnt that the 26-man committee set up
by President Goodluck Jonathan to explore the
possibility of resolving the insurgency in the
northern part of the country will be meeting
tomorrow for crucial talks.
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The meeting would be its first major engagement
since inauguration penultimate Wednesday.  It has
60 days to complete its assignment.
Tomorrow's meeting, which, though had been
scheduled before Friday's kidnapping of the elder
statesman, "has only become more urgent and
very crucial in the light of the kidnap of an 87-year
old man", one of the committee members told
Sunday Vanguard at the weekend.
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And whereas it has been independently verified by
Sunday Vanguard that members of the committee
are yet to make any form of contact yet with
members of the dreaded Ahlan Sunnah Lid
Da'waati wal Jihad Yaanaa (brothers), popularly
known as the Boko Haram sect, a leader and
spokes person for the Northern Elders Forum, NEF,
Professor Ango Abdullahi maintained that this
should not give anybody cause for concern.