Middle Belt Youths Consultative Forum President Talks Tough Over Killings.
“If Nigerians can collaborate against these dastard
killers the way we dealt with ebola, we will end bandits, insurgency, crime and
criminality in North Central before August 2020”…. Z.S Diwong.
With
women being celebrated across the globe, the President of Middle Belt Youths
Consultative Forum, Honourable Zachariah Sunday Diwong has congratulated the
women of the Middle-belt region for witnessing another 8th of March; a date set
aside to celebrate women annually.
Honourable
Diwong, gave this congratulatory message in a statement issued in Kaduna during
a visit by some indigenes of North Central of Nigeria resident in Kaduna.
The
President of the Middle Belt Youths Consultative Forum, in his statement, noted
that the visit by the women, was timely as it came immediately he returned to
Kaduna from the “Jos 2020 Youths Summit”; a conference of middle belt youths,
organized by Middle Belt Youths Council.
The
Middle Belt Youths Council meeting which was well attended by Nigeria leaders,
had in attendance, the youths friendly Federal Minister of Technology, Chief
Ogbonaya Onu among other top dignitaries.
Speaking
with some media practitioners on the sidelines of the meeting, Hon. Diwong
disclosed that the women came to narrate the harrowing experiences and ordeals
that they as women, are passing through in mini-war ravaging areas in Middle Belt
region of Nigeria.
The
Youth Council President revealed that the women of the region are in agony,
saying;
“The
Middle belt women have pleaded with us to rally youths and other good spirited
Nigerians to help solve security problems in most of the North Central States
of the country that have been facing challenges of insecurity”.
Honourable
Z. S. Diwong who was highly composed and obviously so conscious in order not to
be emotional, in his response to the women who became emotional, encouraged the
women with soothing words.
“The
middle belt youths under the umbrella of Middle Belt Youths Consultative Forum
will do something drastic including the intelligentsia, to address the increasing
number of widows in the North Central region soonest”, he stated.
He
further assured them that with no further delay, the Middle Belt Youths
Consultative Forum will commence moves in unison with some states chief
security officers and our gallant Nigeria security operatives and other well
meaning Nigeria to check the rascality of some of us.
He
assured them that some of the programmes of the Middle Belt Youths Consultative
Forum programme are aimed at providing care for widows and women in general and
that this will be unveiled in the second quarter of the year 2020.
Diwong
thanked the women for their and for their confidence in God and love for youths
as he implored them to renew their faith in Nigeria and support the government
of their home states with information that will help bring to an end, the
unwarranted killings in Nigeria.
He
further told them to be good ambassadors of the Middle Belt whilst in Kaduna
State and they should be law-abiding citizens of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“You
can contribute your widows' mite by paying your tax to the government of Kaduna
State and REMIT some amount of money back home to your relatives and friends”,
he stated.
On
a final note the youth leader said; “if Nigerians can collaborate against these
dastard killers the way we dealt with ebola, we will end bandits, insurgency,
crime and criminality in North Central before August 2020”.
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