Exclusive: How Top FG Officials Allegedly Turned Boko Haram 'Ceasefire' Deal into Billion-Naira Scam

A TheCable exclusive has alleged that the phantom ceasefire brokered between Nigeria and the Boko Haram group has uncovered a money-making scam that has been on for the past two years involving top officials in the Federal Government.

The ceasefire fraud, The Cable says, left President Jonathan embarrassed, and the newspaper says this is not the first time the president has been deceived into thinking he was making a genuine peace deal.

As the story goes, the plan had been in motion a few years ago, and President Jonathan was deceived to set up a Boko Haram Amnesty Committee, with the aim of reaching out to the leaders of the Boko Haram sect.

The committee, inaugurated in April 2013, had a singular aim: develop an amnesty program and work out disarmament within a 60-day timeframe.

However, members of the committee planned to cash in on this.

They believed that, just as Niger-Delta amnesty program helped a lot of people cash out and became instant billionaires under dubious means, the same could be done with the Boko Haram situation.

The only hurdle was the facelessness of Boko Haram. Unlike with the Niger-Delta militants, President Jonathan had no idea how the terrorists would be brought to a table for the crucial dialogue.

The government officials – Aso Rock insiders, mainly – saw an opportunity here and cooked up a plan to arrange fake Boko Haram leaders who would collect millions of dollars from the government coffers funded from the security budget.

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