Reuben Buhari
1 June 2009
Kaduna — Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has given reasons why it supported on-going military action by the Joint Task Force (JTF) against militants in the Niger Delta.
ACF said the decision was borne out of patriotic zeal and not because it is against any ethnic group or because the militants are in the Niger Delta.
Its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Anthony, in a statement weekend, in Kaduna, said these while reacting to comments made by National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress (AC), Lai Mohammed, who reportedly said ACF's comment was unhelpful, because it contains no call for moderation, and reeks of ethnic and regional nationalism.
Anthony said military interventions is a necessary last resort taken to flush out the criminal militants who had constituted themselves into major security threat to not only the Niger Delta, but the whole nation, and wondered whether Mohammed read the communique at all.
Part of the communique which was issued by ACF last week, supporting the military action in the Niger Delta, read: "it is important to note that efforts have failed to persuade the militants and some of their people to see the best of intentions in the actions of the rest of the country.
As a result, the militant activities, rather than ebb, have surged by ways of destruction of oil facilities and installations, unbridled kidnappings, murders and hostage-taking of innocent people of the region and oil workers, for purpose of ransom.
More depressing, the will of the Armed Forces is being challenged when their members are also killed in the course of their national assignment."
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