President of the Civil Right Congress of Nigeria, Shehu Sani, has provided reasons why he turned down his appointment as one of the members of the amnesty committee on the dreaded sect, Boko Haram.
President Goodluck Jonathan had during the week at the State House inaugurated the team, charging them to find a lasting solution to the insurgency ravaging the Northern part of the country.
Sani on Friday defended his action, saying he took the decision as he would not want to be part of “an unserious government.”
His statement as reproduced by DailyPost says,“What the government has done is to sabotage and ignore all that we have worked for. It should be noted that there is no way this violence can end and we achieve peace if the government has maintained a double standard of voicing out support for dialogue and at the other time sabotaging it by either not implementing the report or looking down on people.”
According to him, “If the Arewa Consultative Forum ,ACF, had volunteered to speak out when the government threw our report away, it could have made the difference”. he said.
Meanwhile, the ACF on its part has appealed to nominees of the committee who rejected the offer to reconsider their decision in the interest of the North and the country in general.
Rising from ts national committee meeting in Kaduna on Friday, ACF noted that “no amount of sacrifice is too much to bring about peace to the country.”
In a communique signed by its spokesman, Anthony Sani, the body said there was “no time for blame game, but for conscious and collective efforts in providing security in the country.”
Mr Shehu Sani and a respected elder statesman, Alhaji Ahmed Datti, had turned down membership of the committee, citing government’s habitual disrespect and negligence of reports by similar committees in the past.
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