North is blackmailing Jonathan with Boko Haram –Joseph Evah The Federal Government has been advised to explore all avenues, including dialogue, to rescue over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram since April 14 from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. Giving the advice in Lagos, a social critic and Niger Delta activist, Comrade Joseph Evah, warned government against foreclosing dialogue as part of efforts to rescue the girls. According to Evah, who also serves as the coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, President Goodluck Jonathan should embrace all options. “Since we have allowed the Boko Haram to become monstrous, it is too late in the day to shut the door against dialogue. It will be counterproductive. At the early stages of the insurgency, we advised the president on the best ways to handle this crisis, but his advisers didn’t allow him to listen to us, but now that the problem of insecurity has festered, you have to embrace all options to resolve it”, he stated. Evah also implored Jonathan to ask Vice President Namadi Sambo to spearhead the rescue mission to Sambisa forest and other Boko Haram strongholds in the North, in the same way the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua asked Jonathan who was then his deputy to proceed to the creeks in the Niger Delta when the zone was under siege by the militants
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 14:02:05 +0000