The
youths of the middle belt region of Nigeria have finally issued a quit
notice to herdsmen operating in their area after incessant conflicts. A coalition of Middle Belt Youths has asked herdsmen to vacate the region before October 1 this year.
The youths under the aegis of Middle Belt Renaissance Forum, which
met in Abuja over the weekend, threatened total war at the expiration of
the ultimatum.
The meeting which was attended by representatives of youth groups
from all the states making up the middle belt region discussed
extensively pressing issues confronting the area.
A communiqué by its convener, Comrade Jones Simon Alfa, urged
governors from the region to be alive to governance and desist from
harassing media practitioners.
“The Middle Belt Governors should sit up to their
responsibility of governing the people who voted them to power instead
of the sudden primitive accumulation of wealth at the detriment of the
suffering voters,” it reads.
“The Middle Belt Youths will no longer take the recklessness of
the Governors in arresting Media Practitioners, Bloggers and Social
Media Crusaders e.g Kaduna Governor and that of Kogi who are clear
examples.
“The region is not in any way part of the agitation for Igbo to
vacate the north on October. We have been living with the Igbo
peacefully and will not join in the call for secession
“All herdsmen should vacate the Middle Belt Region before 1st
October, 2017 or there will be total war if they are not ready to live
in peace.”
The group called on the core north to stop using the middle belt
people in achieving what it said was selfish political, economic aims
and objectives.
The youths stated that the middle belt people are not northerners.
0 comments:
Post a Comment