The Arewa Consultative Forum has called on security operatives to treat the Governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle as an accomplice in the abduction of 317 schoolgirls in the state.
This comes after the governor claimed that he knew the identities of the individuals behind the abduction.
According to reports, Matawalle had told some Emirs who paid a sympathy visit to him on the kidnap of the school girls that he knew the identities of the culprits and Nigerians will be shocked if he revealed their identities.
Reacting to the statement, National Chairman of the ACF, Chief Audu Ogbeh described it as “careless” and asked the governor to reveal the identities of the kidnappers.
The statement read “The Arewa Consultative Forum ACF is stunned by a statement accredited to the Zamfara Governor, Bello Matawalle.
“The governor is reported in the media to have told 17 Emirs who paid a sympathy visit to him on the kidnap of 317 school girls from Government Girls Secondary School Jangebe in Talata Mafara that he knew the identity of the kidnappers & if he revealed their identity, Nigerians will be shocked.
“We ask the governor to reveal their identity and let Nigerians be shocked or even the heavens fall.
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“We also ask the security agencies to question the governor on the identifies of the criminals he is trying to hide. If he refuses to disclose their identities, he must be treated as an accomplice to the criminal act of kidnapping.
“The ACF has been embarrassed by the spate of kidnappings especially of school children spreading like wild fire all over the north.
“People in positions of authority that will help us out of this mess like Governor Mutawalle must stop embarrassing the north and country with careless statements on a serious issue like the kidnappings of school children.
“Zamfara State and the north are way behind the rest of the country in educational development. The serial kidnappings of school pupils in the north will only worsen a bad and unacceptable state of education in the North.”
