The Arewa Consultative Youth and Women Forum (ACYWF) has distanced itself from protests by some interest groups over the relocation of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos.
The group, in a statement by its National President, Alhaji Adamu Mohammed Matazu, said the location of FAAN does not matter, as long as efficiency and productivity are not compromised.
The youth forum stated that it does not understand what those against the decision of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration to relocate FAAN to Lagos, stands to benefit from their opposition to the move.
“What we have not yet understood is what they stand to gain in all of these. We have a plethora of issues begging for regional emergency and attention. We are faced with insecurity, banditry, kidnapping, and insurgency across our land. We have countless IDPs centres that should rather bother us on how to relocate them to their ancestral homes.
“It would have been a good discourse if our Northern elders are talking to the President on how to relocate these IDPs, create rehabilitation centres for the victims of attacks, bring humanitarian interventions to the people, creating more empowerment for the people and getting some of the moribund cottage industries and factories in the north to work again.
“The last time we checked, Lagos was still part of Nigeria, and most of the government infrastructures domiciled in Lagos are doing well. It would have been a different thing if FAAN was moved to Benin Republic or Niger.
“If moving FAAN to Lagos will bring the desired reform and change the face of the Aviation industry for the betterment of all Nigerians, we the youths and women leaders from the North are fully in support of it. We believe in one Nigeria, and we believe in the progress and development of this nation.
“We don’t have two countries. Some of us haven’t gone out of this country before, not to talk of acquiring two citizenship. So, we must believe in Nigeria and support the Nigeria project,” the group stated.
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