THE chairman, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Aliko Muhmmad,
has lamented the current security situation in the country, saying Boko
Haram has remained faceless largely because “governments have not put
any mechanism on ground to assure the sects that they would not be
arrested and dealt with by security agencies.”
Alhaji Muhammad made the assertion on Friday, when members of the ACF
paid a courtesy visit to the Kano State governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso
He stressed that the position of the ACF and many other Nigerians in
favour of dialogue with the sect, “does not vitiate the standard
campaigns against terrorism.”
ACF’s position, he reiterated, was informed by the fact of history
that no hard power or military has ever succeeded in bringing terrorism
under control anywhere in the world.
Meanwhile, Governor Kwankwaso has contended that the current federal
budget is tilted in favour of a particular section of the country,
cautioning that this would not augur well for peace and steady national
development.
He argued that a lot of the challenges currently facing the country
today had to do with resources that are not evenly distributed among all
sections of the country, lamenting that even appointments and political
patronage were not as balanced as they should be.
The governor’s position was contained in a statement signed by his
Director of Press, Alhaji Halilu Dantiye, a copy of which was made
available to Sunday Tribune on Friday.
His words: “A situation whereby the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) is working for a particular region, a ministry
entirely dedicated to serve a particular region and so many resources
invested in the SURE-P project and directed towards a particular part of
the country is not in the best interest of all Nigerians.”
The governor asserted that he has consistently raised his voice on
the onshore-offshore debate, and lately, the Petroleum Industry Bill
(PIB), so that justice would be done by making sure that those parts of
the country that have enough are not given priority over the deprived
ones.
He advised federal legislators from Northern Nigeria to strive to
ensure that justice and fairness prevailed in the polity in respect of
the PIB, which is currently before the House of Representatives, as well
as other issues, in order to overcome the challenges facing the
country.
The Federal Government, he added, must also work assiduously to ensure impartiality among all sections of the country.
On the security problem in parts of Northern Nigeria, Governor
Kwankwaso blamed poverty and collapse in family/societal values among
others, pointing out that governments and other stakeholders in the
region have to do more collectively to address the crisis, so that peace
and progress do not continue to elude the region.
Tribune
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