The newspapers for Monday, August 28, focus on the feud between the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and Ohanaeze Ndigbo over the leader of IPOB, Nnmdi Kanu.
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has criticised the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, for warning against the re-arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
The forum on Sunday, August 27, condemned Ohanaeze Ndigbo, being opposed to the federal government’s plan to re-arrest Kanu.
The Punch reports that the chairman of NEF Paul Unongo, said the northern elders were disappointed that Ohanaeze had trivialised a criminal matter.
The Punch newspaper for Monday, August 28, 2017, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
NEF flayed the Ohanaeze for comparing the ultimatum issued by the northern youths to the actions of Kanu.
The forum said: “Leaders should be careful about what they support. This is the kind of thing that happened when our young men from the North, feeling cheated and angry with the old men from Kanu’s place for not cautioning Kanu, did what they did (ultimatum).
“But I came out immediately and said Nigerians have inalienable right to reside anywhere. I did that even to the detriment of my friendship with some people.
“But what Ohanaeze members are doing is that they are giving the impression that if someone commits a crime and is from their tribe, he shouldn’t be tried. I don’t understand.
“Are they saying he (Kanu) should not be tried until someone from another part of the country is arrested? That will invite chaos to the country.”
The Nation newspaper reports on the confessions of a member of Boko Haram, Auwal Ismaeela, who said he led the kidnap of 276 schoolgirls from the government secondary school in Chibok, Borno state on April 15, 2014.
The Nation newspaper for Monday, August 28, 2017, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
Ismaeela, who has surrendered to the military, also stated that he led other major operations and said he regretted his actions.
The PRNigeria report said: “Ahead of the Islamic festival of Eid-Kabir coming up by the weekend, a top Boko Haram commander who played a major role in the abduction of Chibok girls and killing of youths in Madagali has surrendered and confessed to several acts of bloodletting on innocent people and destruction of properties across the length and breadth of the North-eastern part of the country.
“In an interview with PRNigeria at a military facility for the repentant and surrendered Boko Haram members in the Northeast, the ex-terrorist leader said he regretted the atrocities he was forced to commit against humanity.
“The commander, Auwal Ismaeela, is currently cooperating with the Nigerian military with useful information on locations and hideouts of other top commanders of the deadly sect. He regretted his actions which, according to him, run counter to several Islamic injunctions.
In a related development, a former commander of the Boko Haram group, Abdulkadir Abubakar, has claimed that two factions of the group are ready for talks with the federal government.
Vanguard reports that Abubakar, also known as Abu Muhammad, was the chief intelligence officer of the Boko Haram group and one of its top commanders, until his arrest in June by the military in Buni Yadi in Gujba Local Government area of Yobe state.
Vanguard newspaper for Monday, August 28, 2017, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
Abubakar said at his cell in Maiduguri that Albarnawi and Mamman Nur factions of Boko Haram were willing to dialogue and cooperate with the government to defeat the most visible leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau.
Abubakar revealed deep divisions and power struggle among the insurgents, claiming the Albarnawi and Mamman Nur factions were opposed to Shekau’s leadership style and bloodthirstiness.
According to him, Shekau, whose capture, dead or alive, the military high command has ordered, has been the major obstacle to peace, since the insurgency began in 2009.
Abubakar’s claim about the readiness of the factions to dialogue with the Nigerian authorities could not be verified as he had been incarcerated since June. But he insisted that the groups are predisposed to a peaceful resolution of the eight year-old crisis.
Meanwhile, as part of measures to battle global warming, Nigeria may ban petrol and diesel vehicles within the next decade being a signatory to the Paris treaty.
The Guardian newspaper for Monday, August 28, 2017, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
The Guardian reports that President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Paris agreement earlier in the year to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. Experts said petrol and diesel vehicles are leading causes of pollution across the world.
In the video below, ZENITHBLOG.com TV takes a critical look at Nnamdi Kanu and the struggle for the actualisation of the Republic of Biafra.
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