{"id":386251,"date":"2021-08-21T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=386251"},"modified":"2021-08-21T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:22:46","slug":"boko-haram-lai-mohammed-under-fire-for-defending-repentant-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=386251","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: Lai Mohammed under fire for &#8216;defending&#8217; repentant terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been rebuked over his comment that repentant Boko Haram members cannot be prosecuted or killed.<\/p>\n<p>Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan described Mohammed statement as \u201ca lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed had said granting amnesty to repentant terrorists was the best thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>The minister had explained that prosecuting and killing repentant terrorists was against global best practices.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Omokri dismissed Mohammed\u2019s explanations, stressing that terrorists are criminals not soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Omokri recalled that allies prosecuted Nazi prisoners of war after the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, he wrote: \u201cYesterday, Lai Mohammed said Nigeria can\u2019t prosecute repentant Boko Haram members because they are prisoners of war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, that is a lie. Terrorists are criminals not soldiers. Also, the allies prosecuted Nazi prisoners of war after the Second World War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, several Boko Haram members recently surrendered to the military in the southern Borno towns of Konduga, Bama, and Mafa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has been rebuked over his comment that repentant Boko Haram members cannot be prosecuted or killed. Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan described Mohammed statement as \u201ca lie.\u201d Mohammed had said granting amnesty to repentant terrorists was the best thing to do. The minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,41,551],"class_list":["post-386251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-boko-haram","tag-buhari","tag-lai-mohammed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}