ACF, Jang decry Jos bomb blast

The Arewa Consultative Forum has described the twin bomb blasts that rocked Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday as “wicked and gruesome”.

The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Alhaji Muhammad Ibrahim, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Kaduna.

Ibrahim added that the act was condemnable considering the huge destruction of property and loss of lives it left behind on its trail.

“The Northern part of Nigeria has witnessed and experienced too many bomb blasts in the last six years, distorting its economic life and undermining its socio-economic development,” the statement said.

The ACF also described the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in the North as most unfortunate, adding that it had led to the death of innocent people.

The forum appealed to the perpetrators of crimes against the country to embrace the civilised way of addressing their grievances.

It said: “Killing innocent people through bomb blast and gun attacks is not a solution to the grievances of the perpetrators.

“ACF finds it agonising and traumatic to always condemn such barbaric acts by insurgents and gunmen.

“The forum therefore calls on government to take proactive measures that will halt the occurrence of these dastardly acts.

“ACF further extends its heartfelt sympathy to the families of those killed and injured in this unfortunate incident.”

The forum also called on the National and State Emergency Management Agencies to immediately provide rehabilitation facilities to the injured and displaced persons in the incident.

In a related development, the Plateau State Governor, Da Jonah Jang, has described those behind the blast as “enemies of humanity and democracy”.

“The sponsors of these attacks on humanity stand condemned now and in the hereafter. We must all mobilise to check the carnage,” Jang said on Wednesday in a statement signed by James Mannok, the Director of Press Affairs.

Jang, who was reacting to the twin explosions that hit Terminus Market, Jos on Tuesday afternoon, condemned the “headless destruction of lives and property by these elements”.

He urged the security agencies to fish out the attackers.

He advised Nigerians to see the war against terrorism as a collective challenge that must be tackled collectively.

The governor said that government was assessing the situation and would take prompt actions thereafter.