Dimapur, October 4 : By way of encouraging citizens to stand and fight, an organisation spearheading the demand for prosecution of those involved in fuel-adulteration in Nagaland has asked citizens to be aware that the Nagaland government holds authority to calling in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Co-Ordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration (CCoFA) issued a note on Tuesday assuring that civil society would be forced to go ahead with a ‘highway bandh’ should—it implied—the government fail.
“The CCoFA, a conglomeration of 21 civil society organisations would like to tell the citizens that the state government has the authority and the power to institute a CBI enquiry into the adulteration issue. And yet, if the CCoFA is forced to implement highway bandh in the state as per the 10th September public resolution, the government is to be squarely blamed,” the committee stated.
The platform is grateful to various civic organisations and transport concerns, from taxi associations to truck drivers and owners to even ‘pick-up associations / unions’, for standing in solidarity with the September 10 public resolution demanding CBI enquiry into the inter-state fuel adulteration racket.
The organisation expressed appreciation that taxi organisations and commercial vehicles of various districts stayed off the road “was a sacrifice for a cause and an indication that the common citizens had had enough of all the wanton corruption in the state.”
On the sidelines, the Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has also expressed support to the Co-ordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration. The union issued a note on Saturday iterating the demand for ‘immediate CBI enquiry into the matter,’ saying it was in the interest of the public.
