Northern Youths Leadership Forum (NYLF) has
lamented that the federal government and military have continue to use propaganda
to sweep the continuing carnage under the radar of the media so it appears well,
and refuse to take responsibility for weekly deaths of soldiers and citizens in
the fight against the Boko Haram in the Northeast.
The forum
was reacting to the recent bomb blast that rocked Mubi town and last Monday militia attack on four villages of
Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State which resulted to the killing of
over 50 people and 60 people respectively in the two separate attacks.
He noted that the security challenges were becoming
unbearable in the Northeast, adding that if the military had mopped up the
Sambisa forest as claimed, why is the insurgents operating from the dreaded
forest again?
Speaking, NYLF National Chairman, Afiyo Elliot,
said there are no two Sambisa forest "if truly the military had cleared Sambisa
forest of insurgency, why are insurgents living and organising their operations
from the forest?
According to him, an intelligence reports made
available to them indicated that the Boko Haram insurgents are still the
occupants of the forest where they plan and carry out their operations.
He said the true situation about the activities of
Boko Haram insurgency and herdsmen/farmers
crisis especially in the Northeast was hidden by the military and other
security agencies from Nigerians.
"There is a big disconnection between what we
are told and what is real," he said
While the chairman condemned the two separate
attacks in strong terms, he said if the military has degraded the insurgents as
they claimed, why are the recent bombings occurring continuously as more lives
have been lost to these attacks than when the insurgents were using smaller
weapons to fight.
The chairman said the authority should stop using
the tool of propaganda to deceive Nigerians but to tell Nigerians the truth in
order to allow them offer genuine prayers and seek solace from God.
Elliot said if they continue to tell lies, God
might not answer the prayers of Nigerians, adding that telling the true situation
might attract help from somewhere else
However, Senator Abubarkar Girei also condemned the
attack in a strong term, describing it as demonic and inhuman that every
Nigerians should condemned the unholy act perpetrated by the insurgents.
Girei, who was one time the governorship aspirant
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, further explained that
caution should be taken to checkmate the activities of the insurgency if
nothing is done to stop the incessant attack on citizens of the Northeast, the
situation will be worse.
General Buba Marwa (rtd) also join prominent
Nigerians to condemned the act perpetrated by the Boko Haram terrorists as he
explained that the military should step up its strategies to contained the onslaught
of the terrorists.
Also, Northeast Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders
Association (MACBAN), Mafindi Danburam, said for now, 60 people were killed in
the attacks as the death toll continued to rise.
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