BOKO HARAM: END INSURGENCY, ACF BEGS FG, Says...... If necessary, the FG should recall trained and retired members of the armed forces and other security agencies to execute the war against the violent militants.

The Federal Government has been tasked by a Northern socio-cultural group, the Arewa Consultative Forum to declare total war on the dreaded Boko Haram sect.

After an emergency meeting held on Friday in Kaduna, the group released a communiqué signed by its Board of Trustees Deputy Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal Moukhtar Mohammed (retd), and the Secretary-General, Col. John Ubah (retd), urging the Federal Government to act fast and end the onslaught in some northern parts of the country.

According to the ACF, if necessary, the FG should recall trained and retired members of the armed forces and other security agencies to execute the war against the violent militants.


The communiqué read: "The Board of Trustees and the National Working Committee of the ACF held an emergency joint meeting at the headquarters under the Chairmanship of Alhaji Adamu Fika, BoT Chairman. The joint meeting deliberated with great pains on the continuous deteriorating security situation in the country, especially in the North and consequently resolved as follows;

"That the Federal Government should seriously address the spate of continued and increasing violence with consequent loss of lives and property, with the aged, men, women and children being dislocated and made refugees in their own country and neighbouring countries, and who largely remain uncared for.

"That the Federal Government should brace up and bring an end to this unnecessary wanton destruction of lives and property.