1 2 3 4 5 (0 votes) The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS), Nigeria/West Africa chapter, has asked the Federal Government to direct its military to go all out in the fight against Boko Haram and other insurgent groups and restore peace to the country immediately. Chairman of the chapter, Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Audu-Bida (retd), said this in Abuja, on Tuesday, while disclosing the outcome of a meeting of the executive board of the society held on Monday. Audu-Bida said the board members considered the worsening humanitarian situation in the North East as well as adjoining states and neighbouring countries and concluded that it was time that all be set aside to wrest the area from rampaging insurgents and restore peace. According to him, figures from local and international agencies like National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Human Rights Watch, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Internally Displaced Monitoring Centre (IDMC) ,revealed mounting intolerable number of Nigerians are both displaced or are refugees in neighbouring countries. He noted that as at March this year, close to four million Nigerians were displaced while over 100,000 were recorded as sheltering in refugee camps in Niger, Chad and Cameroun. Audu-Bida said that this cannot be allowed to continue because humanitarian aid agencies are unable to reach these displaced people for fear of being attacked or kidnapped by terrorists, who have no respect for rules of engagement in their operations. He lamented that the insurgency had been allowed to fester for too long and things had got out of hand, especially with the recent sacking of the Police mobile training institution in Gwoza, Borno State. With this, the insurgents will become more emboldened, unless decisive action is taken immediately to wipe them out. “For the good of millions of Nigerians, the military should take decisive action now to stop further displacement of Nigerians, destruction of farmlands, lives and property as well as occupying our territory, a situation which has become very embarrassing to Nigerians, government and the armed forces.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 02:00:43 +0000
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