Help North’s dying children, Turai tells Jonathan to grant amnesty to Boko Haram

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Wife of Nigeria’s former President, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, wants President Goodluck Jonathan  to appoint  advisers with capacity to handle the Boko Haram amnesty.

She also said there was need for Mr President to replicate what her late husband did on the Niger Delta militancy  to end the  Boko Haram insurgency.

Speaking during a posthumous award to Yar’Adua for his contribution to the development of the Niger Delta by the  Niger Delta Young Professionals (NDYP) in Lagos, Turai, almost in tears,  urged  Jonathan to have compassion on  children  dying in the North everyday, just as she maintained that poverty had turned the  region into a death zone

According to her, “President Jonathan needs to take the bold step my husband (Yar’Adua) took in the face of critical opposition by granting amnesty to Niger Delta militants when he saw the alarming rate at which children and women were dying in the Niger Delta region”.

Although Turai  commended Mr. President, whom she called, “My brother”, for his readiness to grant amnesty to  Boko Haram, she pleaded that the process should be fast-tracked so that the problem of insecurity, death and poverty afflicting children and women in the North could stop.

“This is your turn to do the same thing in the North. It is imperative of you to appoint good advisers who will guide and direct you on how best to handle the amnesty programme. My brother, I am not happy with what is going on in the North”, the former First Lady said.

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