It is either those the Federal Government is negotiating with are not the Boko Haram but the usual 419ners that would go and take money from authorities and disappear, or it is just some kind of mockery on our blood. Some people are swimming in our blood.
After the announcement of the ceasefire, the Boko Haram had taken over a whole local government which means most of the Boko Haram fighters spread across Borno State and beyond are not even aware of any deal.
If they are aware and they are in agreement that there is ceasefire, I don’t think if they would continue attacking innocent people and taken over places.
If there is any genuine ceasefire, people from the three affected states should have been invited but for the Federal Government just came out and say soldiers should lay down their arms, there is ceasefire, it means they are giving us to the Boko Haram.
I know our soldiers, they obey orders and if they obey this one while the Boko Haram are holding their arms and they are using them, it means they may attack us massively any moment from now.
A good example is that they have attacked Abadam after the ceasefire and nobody intervened. So, we are in a dilemma. If the Federal Government does not know who the real Boko Haram are, I think they should come here (Maiduguri) to find out from us, who the Boko Haram are.
This is because, the real Boko Haram who are killing us, who are burning our towns and villages are not the Boko Haram that a peace deal was reached with.
They negotiated with the Boko Haram that are staying in the cities; Boko Haram that are staying overseas; the millionaire Boko Harams and may be they negotiated with the sponsors of the Boko Haram, not the Boko Haram who are killing our people.
In a situation of war, when you talk of ceasefire, it means each side will hold unto its position. Does it mean that the Federal Government will retain the rest of the Northeast where the Boko Haram did not capture and the Boko Haram will hold unto the areas they have taken over?
But unfortunately, those of us who are directly affected by the insurgency are not privy to the ceasefire. I am not so sure if our leaderships in the three states, particularly our governors and our traditional rulers are privy to this deal.
Within the last five years, we have lost thousands of our brethren; we lost our economy completely. Agriculture is dead and over 200 of our settlements have been taken over by the Boko Haram.
In the peace deal they announced, we were not told of what would happen to the hundreds of thousands of refugees that are taking refuge in Maiduguri and other parts of Nigeria and beyond. We were not told anything about our towns and villages taken over by the Boko Haram.
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