Afenifere condemns Jos bombings

THE pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, on Wednesday, condemned Tuesday’s twin bomb blasts which rocked Jos, the Plateau State capital, urging the authorities to do the needful by fishing out the sponsors of terror in the land. An official account put the number of death resulting from the latest incident at 118 on Wednesday. Reacting to the tragedy through a statement by its national publicity secretary, Mr Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere said it was time the government unmasked the sponsors, in order to end the current cycle of terror in the country. Describing the Jos bombing as a ferocious war against humanity, the body said the coincidence of the explosions with the day the Senate extended the emergency rule in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states in the North-East, was a sign that those behind the current insurgency were far more determined than Nigerians were ready to admit. “The scope, spread, preciseness and timing of these ruthless and devastate ting attacks clearly suggest this is a carefully planned and orchestrated war by sophisticated forces using the Boko Haram as a franchise. It is clear this is a war for the soul of Nigeria and the coordinators do not care how many lives it takes for them to achieve their devilish objective,” Afenifere asserted. It challenged the Federal Government to move beyond condemnation of the attacks by unmasking the sponsors of the dastardly acts. “We cannot continue to bury the dead, sympathise with the wounded and wait for where and when the next bomb will explode. “We restate again that we do not want to accept that there are no security inklings as to those enabling this murderous outfit. “Why is it so difficult to unmask them and wait for heavens to fall? How long shall we wait for them to harvest innocent souls in this atrocious war? “We know how long it took America to get Osama Bin Ladin, but it cannot be that difficult to move against the sponsors of terror so as to cut off their supplies,” the organisation stated.