DIMAPUR, JUNE 28 (MExN): Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) in a coordination meeting held today, resolved “in one voice to declare null and void” the resolution passed by DCCI general meeting on June 22.
This was stated in a press release jointly issued by the five civil societies comprising Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD), GB's Sadar Union, Dimapur Urban Council Chairman Federation (DUCCF) and Dimapur Naga Students Union (DNSU) under the banner of Naga Council Dimapur.
The resolution was passed after serious deliberation that “Naga people cannot accept any arbitrary law/resolution passed by Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) where 90% of DCCI office is managing by non-locals which they are not supposed to overrule in our Naga Soil,” stated the release.
The civil body viewed that the issue has been dragged and distorted by vested interest “without even looking into the origin/background of what Naga Council Dimapur really is as an organization.”
“Member tribes who have founded the council are as old as 70 years,” it mentioned, adding it was a “discouragement to find that citizens/some leaders are poorly versed with Naga Council and other civil society's activities.”
What appear more destructive, the NCD said were those who benefited from the “sacrificial service of Naga Council for decades and those who has been witnesses to the many yeomen deeds of Naga Council chose to remain a mute spectator, watching the unfair drama unfold by vested interest with hidden designs to destabilize the effectiveness of the organization.”
It observed that the “Nagas have, since creation of Naga Council by dedicated and farsighted pioneers in 1949, never been able to create another better organization that has invested so much voluntary service into the affairs of public/administration/government than the Naga Council of Dimapur.”
While neither any individual, churches or organization nor the government took courage to voice against the proliferation of unions and their illegal extraction, the release maintained it was Naga tribal leaders under the banner of Naga Council “who stood up against proliferation of unions both in voice and writing.”
It regretted that none of “those who wake up to the menace of illegal collection today are aware of what Naga Council has been doing against corruption in the past two decades.”
