The Kaduna State Government has lifted the 24 hours curfew imposed in the metropolis after the twin bomb explosion that hit the city on Wednesday killing about 84 people and injuring scores of others.
Meanwhile, the former National Publicity Secretary of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and Spokesperson of the Northern Delegates Forum (NDF), Mr. Anthony Sani has reacted to the incident, saying “the twin bomb explosion in Kaduna, and during the month of Ramadan ostensibly targeted at Gen. Buhari and Sheik Dahiru Bauchi are heinous and condemnable.
It was gathered that the state government imposed the curfew to frustrate plan by hoodlums to embark on a protest following the attempt by the suicide bombers on the lives of prominent Northern Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, and former Military Head of State, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
Officials of Kaduna State government, led by Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, have visited the homes of Buhari and Bauchi in Kaduna to sympathize with them. They also visited hospitals in the metropolis to sympathise with the victims of the bomb attacks.
Addressing journalists, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Ben Bak,o said “ after assessing the situation in the city today, the government has decided to lift the 24-hour curfew that it earlier imposed.
“We are satisfied with the security situation on ground. The governor has visited Gen. Buhari and other victims of the bomb blast to sympathise with them. Residents should go about their legitimate businesses and ensure that they are law abiding”.
The ACF chieftain, Sani, said: “The bombs are condemnable not only because of the loss of lives and because of those injured, but the bombs desecrate the religion of Islam which forbids such actions against sacred inviolability of the individual. Worse still, during the month of Ramadan”.
“We condole with the families of those who lost their lives and sympathise with those who suffered injuries from the bombs. May God repose the lives lost and provide fortitude to endure the irreparable losses”.
“As to the personalities targeted and the implications of the attacks, I wish to submit that Boko Haram has never hidden its desire for the substantial parts of the North to be under its own version of Islam, and if possible the cleavages of the country should be along religious lines. What has been at issue is our submission that majority of Muslims do not share Boko Haram’s vision that the country should be converted to Islam through violent loss of innocent lives, precisely because true Islam has no provision for compulsion”.
The Arewa chief continued: “As to the conspiracy theories that some northern leaders brought about Boko Haram in order to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan on account of his faith, ethnicity or region, and the other one that the presidency is behind Boko Haram in order to eviscerate the North socio-economically and politically, I wish to say neither of the two conspiracy theories is here or there.
“This is because I do not see how some northern leaders would like to use Boko Haram and engage in self immolation of killing northerners for political power that is transient. I also do not see how the presidency would like to live a legacy of having presided over a people of Nigeria through internecine conflicts.
And since the two conspiracy theories are not backed by any verifiable facts, and given the fact that such theories are capable of collapsing social contract among groups and nudging the nation towards the tipping point, I appeal to government to help bring Nigerians together and enable them live up their synergistic potential against the national challenges posed by Boko Haram that is a minority”.
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