FG sets up Committee on Boko Haram amnesty

The Federal Government has constituted a committee to look into the call for amnesty for members of Boko Haram.
A top Presidency official, who pleaded for anonymity, disclosed this on Thursday night.
The source said the committee was set up during the National Security Council meeting, which was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan earlier in the day.
However, the source did not name members of the committee, which has two weeks to report back to the President and the security council.
It is expected to work with the Office of the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki.
The committee is charged to look at the feasibility and modalities that will be adopted should government decide to grant amnesty to the insurgents.
Also, the committee will collate views arising from different interest groups who are clamouring for amnesty.
The President, it was learnt, having listened to the call by prominent Nigerians that government should consider amnesty as an option in finding a lasting solution to frequent bomb attacks by the sect, may have decided that the time has come to consider that option.