Editor’s note: Northern Nigeria is faced with challenges of security of lives and property and has remained a major issue today.
These problems include inter-ethic and inter religious conflict, insurgency and terrorism such as the Boko-Haram among others.
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The north must hold a meeting. I don’t know what the Sultan and emirs are waiting for? An arewa agenda should focus on how to rescue the region from Boko Haram and rampant banditry. It’s obvious the military cannot stamp out the insurgency completely.
The religious and political leaders in the north must lock themselves up in a room until they find a fresh idea on how to solve the problem of insecurity in the north.
The region that Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa built is collapsing. Their politicians can play ostrich and concentrate on 2023. They are sitting on a time bomb.
The truth is that the north is teetering, wobbling. Agrucultural output has been hampered by rampant banditry . Whole swathes of farmlands around Kaduna Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto have been abandoned.
School enrolment figures of the region are still an embarrassment to the African continent. The north needs an emergency village meeting. Things like Amotekun should be the least of their problem.
The problem of the north is burgeoning illiteracy, crazy youth joblessness, exploding population and most of all, pandemic insecurity.
The northeast is in literal shambles. Millions have made IDP camps their Ancestral homes. And the insurgency that rears its head like a scare crow and undermines efforts to relocate displaced persons.
For how long can this situation endure? You can have a chat with doctors who have done NYSC in rural areas in the far north. They were forced into extensive surgeries they had never tried before by abject circumstances in the north.
And their governors and big men all live in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos. Some states in the north are now happy to share sovereignty with bandits. Tufiakwa! The north needs an indigenous solution to its problems. But time is running out.