Boko Haram: Lawyer implores National Assembly to legalise arms

His advice was sequel to the recent abduction   of over 200 schoolgirls of the Chibok Secondary School in Borno State by the dreaded group.He told our correspondent that the proposed bill should be passed urgently under the doctrine of necessity which the National Assembly had set as a precedent.The lawyer further advocated the need for […]

His advice was sequel to the recent abduction   of over 200 schoolgirls of the Chibok Secondary School in Borno State by the dreaded group.
He told our correspondent that the proposed bill should be passed urgently under the doctrine of necessity which the National Assembly had set as a precedent.
The lawyer further advocated the need for the federal government to   urgently declare amnesty programme for Boko Haram insurgents in exchange for the safe release of the Chibok students and an end to bloodshed perpetrated by the group.
According to him, the federal government should formulate and immediately implement anti-poverty programme in the country.
“Social security schemes should be developed so that no Nigerian, as a right, lives below poverty line. Cost-free education, cost-free health care, social or free housing, employment or realistic unemployment allowance, and so on must be provided for the vulnerable classes of people in Nigeria.
“The northeast must be given priority attention in all of these, even though the social security schemes should be universal and nationwide. Commit the huge resources being used to fund state of emergency and which would be used to maintain the foreign security agents to address pervasive poverty,” he said.