•Say they have failed to arrest hate promoters
From Sola Ojo, Kaduna
A coalition of Northern youths under the auspices of Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has called on Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to sack the National Security Adviser, Inspector General of Police and Director of State Security Services over their failure to arrest promoters of hate declarations especially those behind ‘Kaduna Declaration’.
Acting President Osinbajo and Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai had at the wake of the declaration on the 6th of June ordered the arrest of those behind the quit notice and their sponsors to serve as deterrent to others, an order yet to be effected. The coalition in a statement signed by its Speaker, Mohammed Salihu in Kaduna on Friday also faulted the elders from the region who supported the October 1 ultimatum issued to Igbo to vacate the region.
The statement reads in part, “Acting president should move ahead and order the arrest of all those behind this plot and even Biafra agitators and bring them to book. While the NSA should be sacked and the DG –SSS, I.G for failing to apprehend all those behind Kaduna declaration.
“If no arrest is made to serve as a lesson to others, next episode will be a full scale war and lives and properties will be destroyed by the followership of ember of disunity. What makes America great is the supremacy of her citizens, the unity of Nigeria is not negotiable and can’t be left in the hands of misguided rascals.
“While the sack of the security chiefs should be treated with dispatch because whosever descends into the arena of conflict will not escape the dust of the encounter, we should question the character of some of our elders we found their effusions rather too insensitive to bear especially in a country that is sitting on a delicate balance.