Jonathan has failed the North –ACF (More like the North has failed Jonathan by introducing Boko Haram terrorists)

Posted by admin Arewa House, Latest Politics Monday, September 15th, 2014

THE Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has labelled the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan a failure.

The pan-Northern organisation, in an open letter to the president, issued to journalists in Kaduna, on Sunday, said the state of insecurity in the region had deteriorated under the watch of the Presidency.

ACF said it reached that conclusion at an emergency meeting with non-governmental organisations from the region, insisting that Jonathan had failed to protect the northerners.

While speaking at the opening ceremony of the meeting, held at its headquarters, the National Executive Council (NEC) chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, alleged that there was a deliberate plan or attempt to emasculate the North economically, reduce it numerically, disunite its people religiously and divide them politically.

“As we gather here today to discuss, let us not lose sight of the fact that there is a Federal Government whose responsibility it is to protect the lives and safeguard the property of every citizen of this country.

“What we are witnessing today is a complete reversal of that role. The government of the day, under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, has woefully failed to protect us.

“While the North is being battered, the people in government have not made serious effort to end it. For the first time in the history of this great nation, our president is being openly condemned for his ineptitude, immaturity and ineffectiveness.

“Since the advent of the Boko Haram uprising in 2009, the region has witnessed a speedy descent into anarchy. The insurgency and insecurity situation we are faced with in the North is such that we have never imagined would happen to Arewa that we all grew up to know, love and cherish.

“The Arewa that was bequeathed to us by our forefathers is no longer the same. Today, the entire northern region is under siege. The North is being attacked from all angles and from all fields.

“Now the general belief is that this government and its leadership do not like us. The current policies and the government attitude towards the insurgency leave us with no better conclusion than to assume that there is a deliberate plan or attempt to emasculate the North economically, reduce us numerically, disunite us religiously and to divide us politically.

“This is the grim situation we are faced with. As leaders of Arewa, it is incumbent upon us to rise up to the occasion. The entire citizenry of the North looks up to us with so much.

“We must, at this point, bury our individual differences, come together and critically examine the situation before us. We must come out and speak with one united voice. We cannot afford to be seen to be divided,” he said.

-Tribune

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