Terrorism: Delegates ask FG to shut borders
Boko Haram, Latest Politics, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, April 15th, 2014Delegates on Tuesday advised the Federal Government to shut Nigeria’s borders with Cameroon, Niger and Chad to curtail the influx of insurgents.
The advice followed the early Monday morning bomb blast at Nyanya Terminus on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory.
Official figure said no fewer than 72 people died while 124 sustained various degree of injury in the bomb blast.
Most of the women delegates dressed in black attire while most men were in black stripes and caps.
The vice-chairman of the conference, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, said, “Definitely, it is known in the city of Jerusalem and Mecca that all is not well with Nigeria.”
The conference was still in the mourning mood when information came that over 100 female students in Chibog, a town in Borno State, had been kidnapped by terrorists, who drove in a convoy to carry out the raid.
The students were said to be in school sitting their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.
The delegates raised the alarm that Nigeria was being invaded by foreign terrorists.
An elder statesman, Dr. Kunle Olajide, said, “I think we are being invaded. We must advise politicians to take politics out of this entirely. There are external sponsors to this cannibalism we are witnessing.”
The Convener of Save Nigeria Group and Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, lamented that security agencies had not been able to curtail the activities of the terrorists in the North-East.
He suggested a stand down of the conference to send a strong message to the government on the need to show more purposeful will to overcome the threat.
Bakare said, “We may have to let them know we are serious. Everyday, we have been sitting here, we have been observing a minute silent. Sending strong message to the government and the security agencies does not seem to be working. A drastic situation may require a drastic action. Let us take a stand that this conference is about Nigeria and Nigerians and a death of one is the death of all.”
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