Arewa Condemns Nigeria’s Christmas bombings (Worthless condemnations)

Posted by admin Arewa House, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the umbrella body of the Northern Nigeria
socio-cultural groups, has condemned the Christmas day multiple
bombings that killed and injured several people noting that the attacks are
“capable of diverting attention to religious crises that would serve no one.”

The group’s position was contained in a statement issued in Kaduna by its
National Publicity Secretary of Anthony Sani.

The Sani’s statement reads

“The spate of bomb blasts on Christmas day, which were directed at places
of worship in parts of the North is a serious source of concern to Arewa
Consultative Forum, to Northern leaders and to the good people of the
North, indeed, to patriotic Nigerians.

“Source of concern not because past bombings were less serious but
because those on the Christmas day are capable of diverting attention to
religious crises that would serve no one, including the perpetrators any
good now and for a long time to come. Consequently, ACF calls on the
perpetrators of violence to stop forthwith and avail themselves to due
process of addressing perceived grievances that are in place.

“ACF also wishes to say that killing of innocent Nigerians is not correct and
offends God and many people’s sense of justice. This is because, a good
number of those who go to places of worship are not lettered in either
Western or Islamic education.

“More so that, western education is not necessarily the cause of the
collapse of national ideals moral values and cause of indiscipline in the
polity since there are examples of Muslim countries and Christian countries
with western education that are morally sound. Turkey which belongs to the
former and Nordic country of Norway belongs to the later.

“Nigerians of all faiths must therefore come together and confront corruption
in all ramifications by inspiring cultural renaissance for collective good.

“Corruption in Nigeria is not an exclusive preserve of western education but
a national malaise that should be confronted by all and not government
alone.”

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