CD Urges Global Action Against Boko Haram

As killings and maiming of

innocent citizens by suspected members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram continues unabated especially in parts of Northern Nigeria, the Campaign for Democracy (CD), has called on all democratic nations, institutions, opinion leaders, and the media in the country and across the globe to rise up against the faceless sponsors of the unholy act.

The South East zonal chapter of the group who made the call in Enugu during an interactive session with newsmen, also enjoined all law-abiding Nigerians not to take chances on the issue, but should at all times be on the side of freedom, constitutionality, rule of law and true democracy in order to save the nation and its democracy from the grip of lawless people that cherish shedding innocent blood.

Speaking on behalf of the body, chairman in charge of the zone, David Kalu and the Secretary, Nze Alaukwu equally urged President Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government to rise up to the occasion without further delay by taking drastic action against sponsors of the inhuman act which has persisted in the northern part of the country.

They deeply regretted that “Instead of good governance and peaceful co-existence, what we are witnessing is starvation, hunger, unemployment, kidnapping, killings and money laundering, as well as bad roads in all the South West, South -South, South East and Middle Belt, lack of power supply and potable water. And to worsen it all, non or irregular payment of workers’ salaries both at the federal and state government levels”, the group lamented.

The group stressed that it had watched with keen interest the spate of “sponsored activities of some top wicked people in the northern part of the country who have organised ethnic, genocidal cleansing characteristic of internal colonisation and economic strangulation that have culminated in leaving Northern innocent Citizens/Christians in the most pitiable and dehumanising state”.

It also noted with deep regret the way and manner the federal government has been handling the ugly development, saying “We unequivocally condemn the killings and assault on the people and official residents of the northern states by Boko Haram.”