Asaba Declaration: We stand with Malami Arewa Youths
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By Ibrahim HassanWuyo
The Arewa Youth Assembly has said that the Asaba declaration that banned the open grazing of cattle is totally unacceptable and threw its weight behind the position of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Malami against the southern governors.
Describing the declaration as myopic and unpatriotic, Arewa Youth Assembly in a statement signed by Mohammed Salihu Danlami, Speaker of the Assembly, said Nigeria is a Sovereign territory governed by a defined enacted constitution which states that every citizen has the right to live and go about his legal business in any part of the country.
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As someone who grew up in the north, I am very much at home to discuss this burning topic which has become inevitable with the needless stoking of the embers of divisiveness by the information Minister Lai Muhammed, Senior media assistant to the President Garba Shehu and a motley crowd of religious extremists who carpeted the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto Reverend Doctor Mathew Hassan Kukah over a Christmas Day message.
This is the kernel of the message: “Annus Mirabilis or Annus Horribilis? The roads to the graveyards are busier than those to the farms. Amidst the wails and laments, I hear the congregants saying; the world is coming to an end, it has never been so bad. Yes, people are dying, but they are not dying more now than they did in recent years. It is the social media and its connectivity that has given us a sense of greater urgency and added to our seeming despair with the way things are. The social media is value neutral. It depends