ACF Berates Buhari For Ignoring Northern Killings
The Arewa Consultative Forum has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for not giving due attention to the killings happening in the northern part of the country.
The group noted that Buhari and state governors had not visited the affected communities to sympathise with the victims adding that only the Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, did such.
This was contained in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, on Monday, with the ACF expressing its “frustration and anger” regarding the wanton killings happening in the north.
The group, however, called on the Federal and state governments to show more empathy when killings occur across the country.
The statement read in part, “The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) will like to put on record its total disapproval, frustration and anger against what appears to be an endless orgy killing in northern Nigeria.
“The latest incidence took place in Giwa LGA of Kaduna state where 38 innocent citizens were hacked to death.
“According to Samuel Aruwan, the state’s commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, many houses, trucks, cars and food crops were destroyed during the attacks.
“While the ACF joins the governor of Kaduna and the President of Nigeria in consoling those who suffered losses during the latest attack, we call on all the state governments and the federal government to show more empathy and sympathy in such grave security breaches.
“Nothing stops the President and a State governor from visiting such places. We sadly note that he has never felt it necessary to do so. In fact, following his example, not one governor has done so except Governor Zulum of Borno. Just a few days ago, also in Uba-Askira in Borno, where 10 people were killed, and uncountable numbers were taken away.
“The President and the northern governors are unwittingly creating the impression that only their lives, those of their immediate family members and their officers’ matter.
“The ACF believes the President and the northern governors have the capacity to do better than this.”
