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From: Muttaka Turaki <turakigm@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Subject: {'Yan Arewa} Arewa Youths To Northern Govs: End Boko Haram Crisis Or Quit
To: Ra'ayi Riga Sabuwar Majalisa <Raayiriga@yahoogroups.com>, "yanarewa@yahoogroups.com" <yanarewa@yahoogroups.com>, "dandalinsiyasa@yahoogroups.com" <dandalinsiyasa@yahoogroups.com>
From: Muttaka Turaki <turakigm@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Subject: {'Yan Arewa} Arewa Youths To Northern Govs: End Boko Haram Crisis Or Quit
To: Ra'ayi Riga Sabuwar Majalisa <Raayiriga@yahoogroups.com>, "yanarewa@yahoogroups.com" <yanarewa@yahoogroups.com>, "dandalinsiyasa@yahoogroups.com" <dandalinsiyasa@yahoogroups.com>
Arewa Youths To Northern Govs: End Boko Haram Crisis Or Quit
Wed, 09/05/2012 - 4:12pm | AGENCY REPORT
A pan Northern youth movement, Arewa Youth Forum (AYF) yesterday told northern governors to 'leave the stage' if they cannot chart a roadmap on how an amicable resolution could be reached between members of the Boko Haram sect and the federal government.
The Forum which specifically pointed accusing fingers at the Chairman of the Northern States Governors' Forum and Governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, stated that the activities of the Boko Haram sect has cripple the economy of the region is under the very watchful eyes of the Governors.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Kaduna where crucial issues affecting the region and Nigeria in general were discussed, the AYF said "we would soon mobilize youths to pray for the peace and progress of the region", even as they appealed to all aggrieved groups in the region to embrace dialogue because compared to other parts of the country, the North has continued to deteriorate due to the guerilla warfare in parts of the region that for now, appeared to defied solution."
The National President of the AYF, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu said they read with mixed feelings remarks credited to the Niger state Governor on how he was able to rid his state of the presence of terror groups, but unfortunately he deliberately or otherwise failed to pass on such a formula to his other colleagues in the region so that peace would be entrenched.
The group lamented that since the crisis began and had continued unabated, hundreds had lost their lives while property of inestimable value were destroyed leaving the North to be so unattractive for local and foreign investment.
He described as sad the fact that even businessmen of Northern extraction preferred to Invest and establish businesses elsewhere instead of the North as was recently exemplified by Dangote, pointing out that in a situation where the governors under the leadership of Babangida Aliyu continued to watch helplessly as such a crisis situation continued to unfold in the region, the best thing is for Governor Aliyu to give way to much more robust and proactive person who could pave the way for a genuine dialogue so that peace could reign in the region.
"Maiduguri is now a no go area, nothing is going on there and nobody wants to go there because of the atmosphere of uncertainty. Kano is in the headlines on daily basis and can be described as theatre of guerilla warfare. In Yobe even animals are not spared as over a hundred were recently ambushed and massacred. Kaduna is not free despite been fortified by all kinds of security. In the Southern part of Kaduna, innocent persons have been killed by unknown gunmen. Plateau is now a case study form students of sectarian violence."
"And yet Governor Babangida Aliyu is there taking pride in what he could not accomplish while things are going on smoothly in other parts of the country? It's high time he allows others with foresight to be at the helms of affair in the Northern Governors' Forum because Northerners and other Nigerians are tired of empty rhetoric laced with deceit and hail truths," he said.
The AYF also expressed sadness over alleged insensitivity on the part the leadership of the Northern Governors' Forum to have left one of the surviving legacies of late Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, the New Nigerian Newspaper to be under lock and key for several months, saying the workers deserves to be treated like human beings and should not be allowed to die in abject poverty and misery.
Muttaka Turaki Gujungu
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