By Samuel Aruwan
Kaduna
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday broke its silence over moves by United States, United Kingdom, China and other countries decision to send troops to Nigeria in the bid to rescue the over 200 Chibok school girls abducted by the Boko Haram sect last month.
The ACF said the decision by the foreign countries was a welcome development and deserved support in view of the insecurity ravaging the Northern Nigeria.
Its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, in the statement, said the forum is pleased with President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to set up a committee that would authenticate the actual number of students abducted by the Boko Haram sect.
“Although the federal government acted belatedly, it is a good development considering the general outrage and protest by women organisations, civil societies and the general public on its earlier inactions.”
Similarly, Cameroonian authorities yesterday said the country was not a safe haven for Boko Haram contrary to assertion in several quarters.
Cameroon’s Minister of Information, Isa Chiroma Bakari, in a BBC Hausa report monitored in Kaduna, said: “Our country is not a safe haven for Boko Haram insurgents contrary to many assertions, it is not true. We don’t condone such and doing our best to secure our own territory and that of our neighbours.”
