The organisations also urged the army to leave no stone unturned in its effort to find a solution to the recurrent crisis in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
Alkali has been declared missing since September 3, but the Nigerian Army has announced the discovery of his car in a pond and the arrest of some people in the Berom community of Jos in connection with the matter.
NACOMYO, in a statement in Abuja signed by its National President and National Secretary General, Mallam Suleiman Sani Maigoro and Alhaji Mas’ud Akintola, respectively, called for the trial of the arrested suspects.
In the same vein, MURIC, in a statement on Thursday by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, called for the prosecution of all those arrested after the army might have completed its operation.
It, however, commended the Nigerian Army for living up to expectation and for conducting the operation in a professional manner.
“We hail the Nigerian Army for making progress in its investigations into the disappearance of General Alkali (rtd) and for its professional prosecution of the operation.
“We appeal to the army not to relent until the retired general is found dead or alive. The culprits should be prosecuted for terrorism. We invite civil society and the international community to allow the Nigerian Army to do the job for which it is well trained. Discipline must be instilled in the Berom community,” MURIC said.
NACOMYO, in its statement, also appealed to political parties not to precipitate violence as they hold primaries into political offices as “organising peaceful, credible and fair polls are signals to what will happen in the general election of 2019.”
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