The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has received with shock the tragic incidence in which passengers lost their lives, with the whereabouts of the abducted yet to be ascertained, as a result of an attack on the Abuja-Kaduna bound train, on Monday, 28th of March, 2022.
The Forum commiserates with the souls lost, sympathises with the wounded and prays for an end to such ugly menace, not only in Kaduna State, but all over the federation.
As a guardian and custodian of the welfare and integrity of the North, the ACF is tired of crying out on the issue of security, and other challenges, in the northern part of the country.
It is curious that a train carrying almost 1,000 (one thousand) passengers be exposed to the kind of situation we found, on the fateful Monday evening, without any precautionary measures
taken.
It would be recalled that, some few months ago, there was a blast on the same route, and the government promised on taking a concrete measure to avert any future occurrence, is yet to materialise.
Moreover, the fact that both air and rail systems, out of Kaduna, have been compromised, it is to be expected that a sensitive government should protect the only route (Kaduna/Abuja highway).
According to the ACF, the tolerance of the Northern population shall, by now, been exhausted, as all their economic activities have been grounded and been left in perpetual fear.
The Arewa Consultative Forum, however, calls on its people to remain positive and law abiding, not to relent in their
resilience and hope towards making lives better for its people.
Signed:-
Malam Murtala Aliyu,
(Mutawallen Gombe),
Secretary General
Arewa Consultative Forum
