Kalu Blasts Nyako Over Memo
Former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, on Sunday berated Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, following a memo he sent to Northern Governors’ Forum, alleging genocide against President Goodluck Jonathan, regarding the war on terrorism.
Kalu, while speaking with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, said that no right thinking Nigerian would accuse his President of genocide.
The former governor advised the Federal Government to solicit for assistance from foreign countries like the United States of America, Germany and others.
He said the assistance should be geared towards the rescue of the over 200 female students abducted by insurgents from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
Kalu, who cautioned Governor Nyako, said he wondered why the president would want to kill his citizen, urging Nigerians to be mindful of what they say as some allegations were far too weighty to be joked with.
"I have a lot of respect for Admiral Nyako but no right thinking Nigerian should be accusing his President of genocide" he said. "Why does he want to kill people that he is ruling, the president is weigh down by the problems. If you know where I live, the president is my neighbour and I know people don’t leave those compounds sometimes 3 am, sometimes 4 am. I think as politicians we should have restrain in what we say and what we don’t say".
The former governor urged politicians to see the unity of the country as something they should work together to build, because it is far bigger than anybody or party, noting that nobody owns the country.
"So people like Nyako, I have a lot of respect for him, I cannot at this stage say that he was misquoted because I expected him, if he was misquoted to come out openly and say so because the unity of this country is more important than Nyako, than Jonathan, than Orji Kalu, this unity is more important than anybody, nobody owns this country, this country is for all of us, we have equal stake in this country, Jonathan just happens to be the president, Nyako just happen to be the governor, kwankwanso just happen to be Kano State governor so you can see Theodore A. Orji happens to be governor of Abia state and I happen to be ex-governor, you happen to be a journalist, so we have a chunk in the place, so it is not for anybody, it is like you see people from Ebonyi they will tell you that Elechi is not doing anything, it is not true , Nigeria is the only country been govern by rumour, once people don’t like you maybe once you don’t give egunje you are now a very bad man" Kalu said.
On the issue of the 200 abducted students, Dr. Kalu said that the military lack intelligence, and wondered why they (military) still haven't be able to locate the girls.
"The military are playing their role now but they lack intelligence, military are supposed to have surveyor intelligence, people with good intelligence, ask them to shoot, they go ahead and shoot, so we have not done the right thing by just giving guns to them, we are pursuing Boko Haram with guns, it is not the right thing to do" he said.
"I want both the Federal Government and the Service Chiefs to work more on intelligence, it is not work of gun, I know what I am saying because I have witness some services of international intelligent agencies, what we are having here is not what they have, they are just not doing intelligence right and I still believe that intelligence are not right, if the intelligence were right, even where those girls are now supposed to have been located" he said.
Dr. Kalu advised the federal government to involve the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in America and other countries to put an end to Boko Haram menace.
"You cannot do this business without the Musak and without the CIA, I say this time without number, anybody thinking that Nigeria will be an enemy to America, we have to be best friend of America, we have to be best friend of the UK, we have to be best friend of Germany and we have to be best friend of China, we have to be best friend of the successful people so that we can be successful ourselves, so only when these best friends are involved, intelligence will come because these guys have gone up there, they have technology, the google earth, the one use by American military and American intelligent agencies are very superior, with their help, by now, we supposed to have found indication where these girls are and where they are been stationed and how they were removed, 200 people is not a joke to be remove, we suppose to have a track, a clue where and how they were removed, it is not an easy thing to move 200 people on the street" Kalu said.
Source: Legit.ng
