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Northern Governors Sabotaged Peace Parley - Turaki

This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
July 28, 2004
Posted to the web July 28, 2004

By Bala Nasir
Dutse
Governor Saminu Turaki of Jigawa State has accused northern governors of
sabotaging the planned peace and unity confab which was scheduled to take place
last month in Kaduna.
Turaki, described the north as a destabilised region and alleged that his
colleagues have politicised the planned conference and frustrate his efforts
Speaking when the Special Assistant to the President on Migration and Special
Affairs, Mrs. Onalaja Soyinka, paid him a visit in his office, he said, his
efforts at bringing all people in the region together was misunderstood and
politicised, just as it was being made a religious issue by his colleagues.
Turaki, who was the immediate past chairman of the 19 Northern Governors Forum
lamented that his colleagues underscored the issue of peace and unity in the
entire nation and African continent.
He noted that "about 70 per cent of our natural and human resources are lost to
destructions through various conflicts in many places around the country,"
adding that for concrete measures against such recurrences, we seek to develop
Nigeria. Failure to forestall them, he said, would lead the country to further
decimation and make development elude us for the time being.
Turaki, therefore, appealed to the Special Assistant to, as a matter of
urgency, come out with a blue-print capable of addressing the perennial human
and natural resources that have been bedevilling the country once and for all.
He also urged members of the presidential committee on internally displaced
persons to work towards adding value to lives of displaced people, since they
found themselves in the present situation as a result of worthless conflicts
that brought no good to anybody.Northern Govs Sabotage Peace Parley - Turaki

   

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