We should Invite Boko Haram to the National Conference - Prof Nwala

The Boko Haram is a very formidable force and we have to contend with that and if we are having a conference, they should be there. And the only way I think they should be there is to say everybody should come and let us decide if we should live together or not. Everybody should be there.

How can you talk about the country without Boko Haram forces that are maiming and killing people all over the place? And I heard that the international community is recognizing that there is some sense of civil war.

But the Boko Haram members are faceless

I don't think they are faceless. Some of their people have been arrested. They have given some of them pardon. In fact, if people say they don't know who Boko Haram are, where they are, their international connections, then we don't know what we are talking about.

We don't understand what is before us. So what I am saying is that, it should have been good if Boko Haram people were invited to discuss the stability of the country

And if they come and maintain their interest and the rest of the country is saying we stay together, then they will be a minority and that moment alone will also strengthen the solidarity of the rest against Boko Haram because Boko Haram is an ideological and military force.

The ideological part of it is that the people themselves have to be sufficiently roused that this is our common enemy.
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