Fasehun urges FG to dialogue with Boko Haram
By ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH
Founder of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr Fredrick Fasehun, yesterday, has said if care was not taken, the insecurity in the country may lead to a revolution.
Condemning last Christmas day bomb attacks on innocent Nigerians in the Northern part of the country, Fasehun, said it was time President Goodluck Jonathan, as the chief security officer allow influential Nigerian to intervene on the security matters and find solution to the problem.
Speaking at a briefing organised to proffer solutions to problems facing the country, he maintained that it was not enough to condemn the killings but that government must allow influential Nigerians mediate in the crisis.
He said government should get reputable Nigerians to meet with aggrieved individuals, put them together and meet with the Boko Haram leaders to put an end to the ceaseless bombings and killings.
He maintained there were Nigerians, who command respect, who could meet with the group and get them to surrender their weapons, adding that the security situation, particularly armed robbery and kidnapping was becoming more worrisome.
He decried the reactions of security operatives to insecurity in the country, lamenting that the operatives in themselves are paradoxically not secure, saying “there is hardly any street in Lagos State without vigilante group.”
Calling on President Jonathan to put on hold the plan to remove fuel subsidy, Fasehun cautioned the president not to go ahead with the removal, saying “he may not like the outflow and the reaction from the removal of the subsidy.”
He said oil subsidy removal was like adding salt to the injury of Nigerians, noting that such decision at this time will further impoverished the downtrodden, who are already down and struggling to survive.
Warning those advising the president on the removal, he said, “oil subsidy removal will do a lot of damages to this country and when the damage is open, a million of Okonjo Iweala will not stop it.”
