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Atiku urges ACF to confront security
challenges Newsdiaryonline
Tue Nov 22,2011
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Chairman, Contact
and Mobilisation Committee of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF)
Conference on Peace & Unity, Alh. Ahmed Mohammed
Gusau
during a courtesy visit of the ACF committee to the former Vice
President in Abuja…Tuesday
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Arewa
Consultative Forum (ACF) to brace up and deal with the security
challenges facing the county by halting the drift into anarchy.
Receiving an 11-member peace delegation of the ACF led by the
former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau, the
former Vice President also noted that the socio-economic
challenges, which provided the spark for negative backlash, must
be treated with urgent priority.
According to the former Vice President, there is no part of
Nigeria that doesn’t face security challenges and, therefore,
the factors that give rise to them must be tackled as well.
He emphasized that the development of the human capital is a key
to economic development, noting that nations can achieve
development without oil and gas. He cited the Japanese success
story as a good example of what human capital can achieve.
The former Vice President reminded the ACF leaders that they
could not detach themselves from politics entirely because
politics creeps into many issues. He, however, noted that the
current consultation by the ACF leaders would go a long way to
help it find its bearing.
Earlier, leader of the delegation, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau and other
members of his team, including General Lawrence Onoja,
emphasized the urgent task of halting the current orgy of
killings between Muslims and Christians in the North. They
regretted the fact that the North could not achieve progress
with death and destruction.
Also in the delegation were Sardauna Katsina, former IGP Alhaji
Ibrahim Coomassie (rtd),
Col. Johan Ubah (rtd), Bitrus Gwadah (Esq), Baba Sule
Bisalla, J. M. Alabi, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim, Fati E. Ibrahim,
Hajiya Halima Alfa and M. Bukar Zarma.
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