Querying the call by some Nigerians for the granting of amnesty to members of the sect, Prof. Omoruyi, argued that so far Nigerians were yet to know “exactly” what the sect was agitating for, unlike the former militants in the Niger Delta, who fought marginalisation.
He said: “I think there is a lot of confusion about the demands of the militants in the Niger Delta and the Boko Haram of the North. In Niger Delta, we knew what the problems were, who the people were and what they were talking about; being injustice arising from the oil in the area.
“They did not hide it. Sometimes, it manifested as resource control, sometimes, derivation. They cried that the oil is dooming in the Niger Delta but the money is booming in the North.
“For Boko Haram, is theirs political? Are they saying that they want Afghanistan in Nigeria? The solution I think is lets give them that part of the country for them to live in the stone age. There is nothing you are going to do than allow that to reign there. Let us have a referendum and give them the opportunity to run their state according to the Sharia. I believe so.
“We don’t know these people. They have not come out to say who they are. Therefore, when somebody said that they want to dialogue, dialogue with who? When they say give amnesty, amnesty to who?
“You can talk with militants you know are fighting for their oil, because you know it belongs to them and it is true.
“There is a monogramme I am putting in place now which I will dedicate to Chief Edwin Clark because of what he did for the oil producing areas over the years; what I called the politics of oil.
“If oil were found in Kano or Enugu or Ijebu Ode, the Nigerian history would have been different today. If today oil is found in Borno, Nigeria will be divided.
“There was a time Gambo Jimeta, the former Inspector-General of Police said that Northerners will go to war over oil. Any attempt to deprive the North of the oil, they will go to war. Why should they go to war?
“So rather than grant amnesty to faceless people, let there be a referendum and give them their own country.”
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