Northern elders has spurned the benevolence by President Goodluck Jonathan ordering the release of terror suspects from prisons across the region, saying he would at some point in time be made to account for the women and children seized by security agents based on unverified terrorism charges.
The northern elders are miffed that the Federal Government under President Jonathan, allowed innocent women and children, who should be spared even in times of war, to be taken captive and incarcerated in dehumanising conditions for many months without trial.
The elders, who spoke to Vanguard yesterday through their spokesman, Prof Ango Abdullahi, noted
with dismay that the administration had allowed innocent women and children to suffer untold hardship for offences they did not commit.
Abdullahi said: “Let me tell you that what the government did by ordering the release of suspected terrorists was borne out of shame and guilt being suffered by it for clamping innocent women and children into detention camps or what you may call Nigeria’s ‘Guantanamo Bay’, which are scattered all over the place.
“As far as we are concerned the release of the so-called terror suspects should have been done long ago as long as this people were not tried or charged.
“To us what the President has done is borne out of embarrassment the government is suffering at home and abroad over the arbitrary detention of innocent women and children. The NEF took very serious exception to the latest threat by militant leader, Dokubo Asari to match the opposition bullet by bullet if Jonathan was not re-elected in 2015, saying that it was a threat to national security.”
In spite of the threat, however, NEF said that while Dokubo did not have the monopoly of war, it
should be clear to him and his sponsors that the country was bigger than a militant leader and his cohorts, who are speaking from both sides of their mouth for pecuniary reasons.
“From the antecedents of Asari Dokubo, we believe that he is making these empty boasts apparently because of the filthy lucre he is getting from pipeline contracts and the promise of more. But we can bet that he would be the first person to flee to the creeks if the war he is threatening breaks out.
“If not that he is being sponsored by the corridors of power to make this repulsive threat, the best would have been to ignore it as mere ranting of a confused individual looking for cheap gains”
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Northern elders should be held responsible for the activities of book haram in the north . They are their sponsors .they are talking about their wives and children .what about the wives and children of innocent Christians they killed in their places of worships . They av never talk against B/H because they know them . They sent them.
ReplyDeleteFor all I care, screw the northern elders. They all can go and bath with acid
ReplyDeleteThe Northerners are the problem of Nigeria. Terrorism, Insecurity Illiteracy, Poverty and so on are centralized in there place, and their elders still have mouth to talk
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ReplyDelete...millitancy, boko haram are all the resultant effect of Corruption in Nigeria. The Federal Government under President Jonathan INHERITED the problems.Let's stop throwing blames. Our Leaders, respected Elders and Federal Government under President of Jonathan and...the president to come next should note that the common Nigerian, our fellow poor brothers and the helpless citizens of this Country are living in abject poverty. The Federal Government under President A – Z should use the resources giving to Nigerians by nature to batter the life of Nigerians. Stop CORRUPTION now… to welcome peace in NIGERIA.
ReplyDeleteIf truly northerners are the problem of this country, let us divide the country and see what happens. It is not by force that the country should remain together, rather it is based on mutual agreement. In a situation where one side feel marginalized or dissatisfied, the agreement can be terminated or changed.
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ReplyDeletewhen their son started behave like goat and cow they are there quietly. Now why noise? Northen leaders repent and say sorry 1million times to good people of Nigerian. God bless Nigeria ARMY.
ReplyDeleteThose who are supporting boko haram are the enemies of this country how can you compare militant with bokoharam do they enter churches to kill or do they manufacture bomb to kill all the blood of those people kill will still crown on this people neck both their leaders......by the grace of God this man called BUHARI and the remaining people their blood will soon use to sacrifice this country in the name of almighty
ReplyDeletewho will account for the Christians death, oh! so death use to pain? you people started it therefore, let the dead bury their dead, so every concern person should bear their pain because it is vise versa.
ReplyDeleteJONATHAN FOR 2015....................NEF SHOULD GO & SIT DOWN
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