After initial resistance, President Goodluck Jonathan has finally bowed to pressure and agreed to offer amnesty to Boko Haram members.

Impeccable sources disclosed that the Nigerian leader agreed on the issue with northern elders during their closed-door meeting in Abuja last night.

“The President is meeting Security Chiefs now to discuss that,” one of the sources told News Express.

News Express learnt that the Service Chiefs would most likely okay the amnesty since the military option has failed to solve the problem.

Northern leaders, including Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar, have for weeks now insisted on Boko Haram members being granted amnesty just as was done to militants from President Jonathan’s Niger Delta region. Jonathan however maintained that he would not negotiate with ghosts and challenged Boko Haram members to show their faces.

Just yesterday, Chief of Army Staff, Major-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, told media chiefs in lagos that Boko Haram’s tactics are “baffling.”

Boko Haram, has killed over 3,000 people since 2009, with the government having failed to put a stop to the carnage despite having spent many millions of naira in a military campaign against the sect.