WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025
WC-NNPG urges maturity from N Kitovi Zhimomi
Published on Feb 2, 2025
By EMN
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- DIMAPUR — The Working Committee of NNPG has urged N Kitovi Zhimomi to demonstrate maturity and accord bigger priority to the common Naga interest in the backdrop of their ongoing tussle for legitimacy.
- A statement from the committee on Sunday explained that the Naga National Political Groups (NNPG) was brought into being through a mutual contract between various Naga political groups to collectively and politically engage with the Centre with a clear objective of securing an honourable and enduring political solution to Indo-Naga political conflict.
- “And to observe protocols and decorum of the conglomerate, a Working Committee was constituted from among the representatives nominated to the NNPG by respective Naga political groups. As such, N Kitovi Zhimomi, former Ato Kilonser of GPRN/NSCN(U) nominated by his President Gen. (Retd.) MB Neokpao to the NNPG, was inducted to the Working Committee as the Convener.
- “Whereas, unfortunately, on 21st April 2024, Kitovi Zhimomi was impeached by their group from Ato Kilonser and subsequently recalled from the WC of NNPG. Accordingly, the WC on 28th April and 28th May unanimously resolved to keep the position of convener in a moratorium while the efforts towards rapprochement were being initiated and also until such time as a new convener is elected/selected,” the statement read.
- According to the committee, co-conveners Toshi Walling, Shitoho Chophy, and Kiumukam have appended their signatures on all the WC resolutions endorsing the removal of Kitovi Zhimomi from the position of convener.
- “Reasons for their self-contradicting stand, therefore, are best known to them. The convener of the WC is neither hereditary nor preeminent but a nominal head unanimously elected/selected to lead the NNPG by maintaining unanimity, cohesion, and transparency.
- “All the affiliates of the NNPG equally share responsibilities, and none is lesser or greater than the other. Similarly, the Agreed Position is not something patented for exclusive individual ownership but an official political document outlining the roadmap for an inclusive Naga political solution,” it asserted.
- No individual leader or group must ever make an assumption of individual monopoly of the Agreed Position on the basis of being a signatory, the committee stated.
- “While the WC-NNPG sincerely acknowledges the sacrifices of Kitovi Zhimomi in steering the platform thus far, it also urges him to demonstrate maturity and to accord bigger priority to the common interest of the Nagas over and above individual differences or personal ambitions,” it stated.
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