Afe Babalola seeks confab on Boko Haram

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By DAYO ADESULU

LAGOS—A legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Aare Afe Babalola, has condemned the Federal Government for not taking the issue of Boko Haram seriously,  insisting on the immediate convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, as the only solution to Boko Haram insurgent and other burning national issues.

Babalola also called on President Goodluck Jonathan not to ignore fears expressed by notable Nigerians including chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and founder of The Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, that the country was at the brink of disintegration except SNC was convened.

Babalola, Chairman/Governing Council, Chartered Institute of Administration, spoke at the annual presidential /presentation awards to new fellows of the institute at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Lagos.

Babalola reiterated that countless security and economic challenges the nation faced, left  no room for alternative but SNC.

According to him, our national newspapers, he stressed, had catalogues of disasters ranging from terrorism, armed robberies, deaths, and arson among others which now dominate their front pages.

He pointed out that  government's inability to curb the excesses of fundamentalists should necessitate invitation for dialogue, in order to know what their demands are.

Vanguard Nigeria