We must make peace or we lose the North, Says ACF Chair Ogbeh

It is totally baffling when criminals enter a village to kill women and children, sometimes, old people. Even more worrisome, is that they carry some into captivity. What is the rationale behind this barbaric killing of women, children, widows, and old men? What is really going on? We in ACF are particularly distressed by these happenings, because it’s a gateway to destruction. Killings and destruction don’t build any society.

The increasing excitement in the North on oil money, federation account and all that, a culture of depending on employed payment, employed service as a source of living, almost every body is depending on salary, particularly, in the last ten years in the North. Politics has become the major industry. This can’t make a society grow. I know every part of Nigeria has experienced economic shock because of some developments.

We are deeply worried. That is why we have started meeting and talking. We are looking for solutions and we want to join hands with our governors and legislatures to see what we can do.You know Boko Haram began 2010 when Yar’Adua was the Head of State. It was at Abuja airport on his way to Brazil when the news of Boko Haram was broken to him. Immediately he gave instructions to the Army to flush the insurgents.

Here is the dilemma: The Army, the DSS , the police, the Air force are overstretched. They are operating in nearly 34 states. So, their numerical capacities are overwhelmed. In terms of equipment, these things don’t cost small money. What is the cost of Tukano fighter jet? You have to deposit huge sum of money to Americans before they start delivery of the fighter jets.

When the governor of Borno said there was sabotage, the matter was dismissed. I will advice the military to investigate the matter thoroughly before writing it off. They might find something new. They may find the truth, because Zulum was not just talking for the fun of it. Why is it when sometimes they are moving to a target, they are usually ambushed. It means someone is leaking information to the insurgents.

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