The
Federal Government on Tuesday reacted to the offer of ceasefire by a
faction of the fundamentalist Islamic group, Boko Haram, by giving a
condition to the sect.
The condition: Boko Haram must stop its violence in the North for a period of one month.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola
Ibrahim, stated the Federal Government’s position just as the Federal
Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, summoned an
emergency security meeting over increased presence of foreign
immigrants in the FCT.
Ibrahim spoke with journalists at the
opening of the 2013 seminar on National Security with the theme,
Contemporary National Security Challenges: Policy Option, organied by
the Alumni Association of the National Defence College, Abuja.
He said that while security chiefs were excited by the development, the olive branch offered by the sect called for caution.
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