Kelechi Azubuike (Culled from Vanguard)
LAGOS—Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, yesterday, called on the Federal Government and the military to rise to their responsibilities and end insurgency and wanton destruction of lives and properties in the country.
In a statement, PENGASSAN decried the level of insecurity, especially the killings by the Boko Haram insurgents in the North Eastern part of the country and called on President Goodluck Jonathan to step up the political will to deal with the crisis.
Condemning the blast that killed 47 school children and injured 79 others in Potiskum, Yobe State on Tuesday, PENGASSAN President, Francis Johnson, said the government should use all the powers to deal with the situation and ensure that Nigeria was a safe place to live.
According to him, “attacks on the Northern part of the country and killings of innocent Nigerians have been on the increase and taken a new dimension since the government announced the controversial ceasefire pact with the Boko Haram.”
While calling on government to bring full force to bear in containing the activities of the sect, Johnson, who described the killings of the school children as barbaric, lamented that since the insurgency started in 2009, many Nigerians had been killed, while many more were rendered homeless and turned refugees in their own country.
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