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Saturday 2 June 2012

Boko Haram: Don’t blame government – Suswam

Benue State Governor, Rtd. Hon Gabriel Suswan believes that although government has a responsibility to ensure the security of lives and property of the citizenry, but the struggle to end the Boko Haram insurgence should be left alone for the government alone to face. He noted that circumstance requires people to collaborate with security agents in confronting the terrorists. Suswan said this while addressing newsmen in Kaduna after the last meeting of the Nothern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF). He said: “We are calling on the support of all Northerners to help us by providing information. Now, look at our sad situation about investment – Kano is gone, Kaduna is gone, Jos is gone. These are the three most vibrant cities in the entire north. All of them are gone! Nobody wants to live in Kaduna; nobody wants to go to Kano and trade, who will go on holiday to Jos now? Nobody! “So we have a very serious situation that affects us all, it is not about leadership failure.
Let’s not be pushing it on leadership. Yes, leadership has a large chunk of the responsibilities, but we need to come together and see it as our collective problem and not a leadership problem.” “The only way to confront the security situation in the region is through intelligence gathering, which depends largely on the cooperation of the people to provide credible information to security agents since those behind the bombings are not spirits, but live among the people.” “People must assist in intelligent gathering because these people are not spirits, they live in homes, the live in the community. They do their trainings in homes. We need to have information at the level of leadership, otherwise, the north as it were, is being decapitated economically and so there is nothing that we, as leaders alone can do, except we collaborate.” Speaking further, Suswam noted that the government on its part has been trying to offer a lasting solution: “You see, quite a number of arrests have been done if not the situation would have been worse than what we have now. Sincerely, people are given information, many documents had been recovered and securities have been following it up. In addition, what the security agencies had done is quite commendable. It’s just that they are not talking about it. But it is quite a lot and that is why I can comment confidently on it.” “These are things we read about in the newspapers and watch them in the televisions from other lands. We would tell ourselves that as far as the unity of our country was concern, this could never happen here. Therefore, our securities and even the people of the country were caught un-awares. Therefore, we have to admit that yes now we have these problem, but lets come together, and find ways of collaborating to erase this nuisance.” He added.

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