Chibok Schoolgirls: Don Urges Political Class to Close Ranks

Date: 2014-05-08

The Director, Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Dr. Marfuz Adedimeji, has urged the political class in the country to close ranks in the quest to assist the government and security agencies to rescue the schoolgirls of Chibok from the insurgents.

Adedimeji said  the ongoing exchange of words among politicians would not help the matter, knowing that the issue at stake involves human lives.

The don, who  disclosed this in Ilorin yesterday while speaking with journalists on the state of the nation, also called on the federal government to adopt the “Carrot and Stick” option in its efforts to rescue the girls.

He said the political class should be mature enough to close ranks and strategise with the federal government so as to assist in rescuing the schoolgirls.

According to him, “It is disturbing the way and manner the politicians have been attacking themselves on the pages of newspapers instead of working insteal of working together towards finding the way to rescue the schoolgirls.”

He said they (politicians) should demonstrate maturity and strive harder to work in unity so as to get the girls rescued from the hands of the gunmen.

Adedimeji also stated that government must not close its doors against negotiation since lives were involved.
He noted: “What is required is more of intelligence action and that the approach should be hard and soft because there must be dignity in human life.”

Saying that: “When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers, the don added that “terrorists are animals so we should not reduce ourselves to their status because human lives are involved here, the government should rely more on soft option.”

He also expressed concern that the general situation in Nigeria today is bad to the extent that human life is being diminished.
“Setting human being ablaze alive without recourse to law and order and kidnapping both boil down to the fact that we have no value for life and this is very unfortunate,” he stressed.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Onilorin Of Ilorin     HYPPADEC     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Malete     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Adebara     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Yahaya Seriki     Baba Idris     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Abdulmumini Jawondo     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Olaosebikan     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Plat Technologies     Aliyu U. Tilde     Ilesha-Baruba     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Fareedah Dankaka     3MTT     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Col. Taiwo     Ojo Isekuse     Agboola Abdulraheem     IFK     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Bola Magaji     Bilikisu Gambari     Mahe Abdulkadir     Iponrin     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Nigeria Customs Service     Offa Grammer School     Ado Bayero     Lafiagi     Orisun Igbomina     SARS     Kwasu     Adedipe     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Moshood Mustapha     Adisa Logun     Omoniyi     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     High Court     Idowu Aremu     ANCOPPS     Quareeb Islamic Association     Dauda Adesola     COVID-19 Palliatives     Kemi Adeosun     Lai Gobir     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Bamikole Omishore     Kwara State Football Association     Fawenu     KWASSIP     Osuwa     Metro Park     Alapansapa     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Elelu     Oyawoye     Kwara State Television     Clara Nwachukwu     GGDSS Pakata     Law School Scholarship     Baboko Primary School     PharmAccess Foundation     Madawaki     Okala Baba     Ndakene     MATTA Girls Foundation    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Akanji     Jawondo     Ajuloopin     Danhawa     Reuben Paraje     Olabimpe Olani     Ibrahim Taiwo     Obayomi Azeez     Towoju     John Olobayo     Ramadhan     KWSIEC     Ayedun     Sobi     Bisi Kristien     Aremu Odolaye     Oya State     Arinola Lawal     Nigerian Correctional Service     Sarakite     Paul Odama     Hajj     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Issa Baba     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Shururat Olatinwo     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Kunle Akogun     Oke Sunna     Pacify Labs     ITEM 7     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Abraham Ojo     Adegoke Bamidele     Egbewole     Olayinka Are     Sunset Workers     Popo-Igbonna     EndSARS     Stephen Fasakin     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     NSCIA     Yusuf A. Usman     Omoniyi Ayinla     Admiralty Villa     Abraysports FC     Musbau A. Akanji     Sulu Gambari     Guber Aspirant     Tafida     Abiodun Oyedepo     Sidikat Akaje     Fulani     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Maigida     Sa\'adu Salahu     Durosinlohun Kawu     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Neo Mundo Ltd     Aminat Ahmed     Okoolowo     Gbenga Awoyale     Bello Oyebanji     Mogaji Aare     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Dasuki Belgore     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Saba Jibril     Kawu Baraje     Basic Education Certificate Examination     MMWG     Kayode Ishola