The Arewa Consultative Forum is pushing back hard after a video went viral claiming they want to give bandits the same amnesty deal that militants got during the Niger Delta situation years back. Their publicity guy said someone clipped an interview with their board chairman out of context to make it look bad, and the full version is still up online for anyone who wants to check.
The chairman was basically floating the idea that the government should try every possible angle to deal with security problems, kind of like how the late president handled things down south. But the forum made it clear they never actually endorsed paying off terrorists or letting them walk, and they're backing whatever the military and police need to do to crush the whole banditry situation. They called out whoever twisted the interview as shady characters trying to stir up drama.
The chairman was basically floating the idea that the government should try every possible angle to deal with security problems, kind of like how the late president handled things down south. But the forum made it clear they never actually endorsed paying off terrorists or letting them walk, and they're backing whatever the military and police need to do to crush the whole banditry situation. They called out whoever twisted the interview as shady characters trying to stir up drama.
