The forum challenged Federal Government and the military to rise up and dislodge the sect from areas it seized from Nigeria.
The forum, in a press statement signed by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, and sent to SaharaReporters' New York office stated:
The meeting discussed exhaustively the security challenges in the North, especially the capture of some towns and villages by the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states.
According to reports, the meeting resolved to issue the following statements, and expressed deep concern about the rapid escalation of the security challenges in the North-East, particularly the capture of large portions of the territories of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by the Boko Haram insurgents, despite the state of emergency and the heavy presence of the military.
Reports indicate that the Boko Haram insurgency appears to be on an unstoppable advance to over run more territories of Nigeria. Our military effort to checkmate the advance of the insurgents in their quest to conquer more parts of Nigeria, especially in the North East, is not yielding the desired result.
The performance of the military and other security agencies in combating the insurgency is therefore unimpressive, considering the past performance of our military and the police in peacekeeping operations outside the country, like in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan etc., and recently Mali. Why is our military now failing to quell such a rebellion by a band of insurgents?
The ACF calls on the Federal Government to, as a matter of extreme urgency, investigate and unravel the actual reason for the failure of the military to live up to their past performance. ACF urges the Federal Government to quickly take all necessary measures to reclaim the territories captured by the insurgents and restore the territorial integrity of Nigeria.
Source: Sahara Reporters
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