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C4PS
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ADDRESS: GIWAC’S OFFICE, SUITES 2&3,
WOMEN MULTI PURPOSE CENTER, NO 2 BANK ROAD, KADUNA. Email: c4psinnigeria@gmail.com, Phone: 08023619217, 08034737077,
08033119990.
REF: C4PS/CRP/I/20. DATE: 14/03/2014
AFTERMATH OF RECENT INSURGENCY ATTACKS IN THE NORTH
EAST, KATSINA AND kADUNA: A CALL TO ACTION
It is with a very heavy heart that we recall the
recent events that have occurred in Northern Nigeria, particularly in Yobe,
Borno, Adamawa states and now in Katsina state.
Indeed the threat of insurgency in this part of the country has
deteriorated to a situation where women and children are now the targets. The
recent attacks on Bun Yadi in Yobe, Maniok , Bama and Mafa in Borno and now
Kurar mota and marabar maigoro among others in Katsina state have proved this
assertion. At least 96 people mostly women and children have lost their lives
in the latest attacks while 59 school children were cold bloodedly murdered by
insurgents in Yobe state. Still more than 10,000 women and children have become
homeless, clothe less, traumatized and without food. This is indeed very
pathetic.
However what is even more depressing is the silence majority
of the people have kept over these atrocities, the silence of our leaders, of
the various so called unions and human rights organizations and even the
activists. While thousands of women and
children roam the forest of the north east and other places homeless, without
food or clothes, having lost loved ones, we in the other parts of the country,
particularly in the north sit in our homes and take our meals comfortably. We
strongly condemn this highly un- brotherly act and call for its immediate stop.
We must raise our voices against this injustice, this
genocide, this barbaric act and fight it to the end! More importantly we must
lend our support and give to our brothers and sisters in the north east and
Katsina as well as other places. We must
lend a leaning and helping hand to the thousands that remain homeless, hungry
and without clothes. We need to more than ever before be our brothers and
sisters’ keepers and of the innocent children that have become orphans. Let us
give them our widow’s mite and or our all and all.
It is against this background that we, under the
auspices of Global Initiative for Women and Children (GIWAC) and the
Civil society coalition for peace and security (C4PS) intends to raise
as much relief support as possible and
send to these homeless women and children of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Katsina,
as well as those taking refuge in Gombe. In this respect we call on all and sundry
to “look into your hearts and dip your hands onto whatever you can afford to
give in order to touch the lives of these unfortunate victims”. This can be
done individually, collectively or through our own modest efforts. We can be reached through Hajiya Hafsat Muhammad
Baba at Global Initiative for women and children, Suites 2 and 3, Women Muliti
Purpose Center, Bank Road Kaduna or through any of the following phone numbers:,
08033119990, 08034737077, 08023619217.
Kindly do so between now and march 31st,
2014 as we intend to send the relief consignment on the 1st of
April. We also call on all to continue
with the prayers and fasting for divine intervention on this calamity.
Similarly with the closure of schools in the affected
areas which now threatens the future of at least 10,000 school children, we
call on the northern states Governors and other well meaning citizens including
private schools to intervene by absorbing these children in their own school
systems and taking full responsibility for their education. The north,
particularly the north east cannot afford to add to the about eight million of
children that are already out of school.
A word, as they say, is enough for the wise!
Hajiya Hafsat
Baba
Jamil Mustapha Ango
GIWAC
C4PS
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