Northern
delegates to the ongoing National Conference have welcomed the intervention of
the United States and the United Kingdom in the move to rescue the remaining
school girls abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno State.
They
slammed the federal and state authorities for their lackadaisical attitude
towards salvaging the security situation in the country.
The
Northern delegates said that the news of the agreement between the president
and governors to join forces to defeat the insurgency came to them as a
surprise.
In a
statement issued by their spokesman, Mr. Anthony AZ Sanni, the delegates
nevertheless called on the Boko Haram Islamic insurgents to release the girls,
saying it was irrational to hold women or girls as victims in any conflict.
In a
statement, Sani said that the Northern Delegates Forum is “happy to read
reports that USA and UK have decided to lend Nigeria their helping hands in the
spirited efforts to rescue the abducted girls. That is how it should be, since
terrorism transcends national boundaries.”
While
calling on the abductors to release the girls, the forum said: “This is because
there is no conflict in the world, be it secular or religious, that allows
women and children to be victims. More so that violence has never resolved any
perceived grievance. Only constructive dialogue does. So let us embrace
civilized way of resolving perceived differences rather than resort to violence
that is often unhelpful because it offends many people’s sense of justice.”
The
forum welcomed the news of the agreement between the president and the
governors, saying, “The recent reports that Mr. President and state governors
have resolved to come together to put an end to security challenges across the
country, though heartening, have come to Nigerians and northern delegates as a
surprise. A surprise in the sense that it took them so long to realize that the
primary responsibility of government is to protect lives and property of the
people.”
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