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Boko Haram: Ibrahim Kumasi Blasts Jonathan, “You’re Insincere”

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The Pan Northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday fired a broadside at the President Goodluck Jonathan, querying his sincerity in the fight against the Islamist sect, Boko Haram.

It said that the troops deployed to confront the insurgents in the Northeast appear not to be combat ready, given the ease with which Boko Haram is succeeding in killing innocent Nigerians.

The ACF , in a statement by its Chairman and former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, said the fact that the Army division established by government to fight the insurgents does not have a full combat-ready battalion to engage Boko Haram is a clear indication of lack of seriousness on the part of government to end the insurgency.

It wondered, for instance, how a convoy of 30 to 60 vehicles full of weapons and materials would travel for five to ten kilometres, conduct an operation, killing people and destroying property and return to base unchallenged.

”There is certainly more than meets the eye. Or else how come a convoy of 30 to 60 vehicles full of arsenal men and material travel five to ten kilometres conduct an operation, killing people and destroying property and return to base unchallenged?” the organisation said.

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Denouncing what it called gradual attempt at annihilating Northerners the ACF said that “governments at federal and state levels go about their normal business as if all is well with us. This insensitivity on the part of government is highly condemnable. Northerners are full of despair and can only turn to our governors who are constitutionally charged with the responsibility of our security and welfare.”

Northerners, it added, want to see their Governors at the forefront of employing every means at their disposal to bring to an end the massacre of their people, pointing out that the claim that the solution to the problem lies with the Federal Government alone is no longer acceptable.

He said that while Northerners generally believe that the complacency of their elected leaders has contributed to prolonging the unfortunate situation troops deployed by the Federal Government are thinly deployed and “most inadequately equipped and motivated.”

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The ACF said:“ Baring insincerity why was the Governor of Borno State so castigated when he told the truth about the situation?

“Continuous spate of massacre taking place on daily basis and claiming many innocent souls in villages of Borno,Yobe and Adamawa is a clear pointer to the failure of leadership and insensitivity of governance.

“The Federal Government, Northern State Governors and the entire political elite including the technocrats and the bureaucrats and all leaders of thoughts need the people to be alive in order to rule them.”

And to the Northern governors, it said: “ACF is now constrained to draw attention of our Governors to our collective responsibility as leaders and protectors of security of lives and properties of the entire North. The effort so far made by our governors towards the resolution of this crisis need to be re-doubled.

“No matter how meagre the resources available to our governors, compared with their southern counterparts, we believe that you can do better, individually and collectively.”

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