The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the persisting power supply outage in northern states of Nigeria.
The Arewa Consultative Forum has called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the persisting power supply outage in northern states of Nigeria. ACF also called on all those concerned to rise to the occasion by declaring a state of emergency on the problem before it snowballs into a crisis, stressing that it is a threat to national security should forthwith be treated with the seriousness it deserves and be addressed with the honest urgency it deserves.
'An exception to the muteness has been the brave voices of some members of the National Assembly, brave because muteness has since become entrenched in the behaviour of elected personalities.The problem, rather serendipitously, also exposes the gross inequities in power supply generation and distribution nationwide,' the statement observed.
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