We must restore the glory of the north – CNG … we have no other place to call home than northern Nigeria 

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ZAINAB TANIMU
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National Cordinator, Coalition of Northern Group, Comrade Jemilu Aliyu Challenchi

We must restore the glory of the north – CNG

… we have no other place to call home than northern Nigeria

 

Zainab Tanimu

 

Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria

 

A group under the auspices of Coalition of Northern Group (CNG) has stressed the need for northerners to expedite action in  restoring the glory of the region.

Recall that during the recent Governors Forum’s meeting held at Government House Kaduna, submissions were presented as to how to chart a way forward in solving the problems bedeviling the north.
National Coordinator, Coalition of Northern Group Comrade Jemilu Aliyu was part of the invitees.
Below is a flashback of what transpired at the meeting as he opened up to journalists on some positive measures proffered by the group.
Excerpts:
“There was a committee set up. This committee has been sitting for over six months in our office deliberating, making researches even outside the region to identify the critical problems that are bedeviling northern Nigeria.
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“We are quite aware that numerous reports have been submitted to the government but ours is different because researches were made and as a result, we organized a two day round table meeting at Abuja and was attended by calibre of people.

“We deliberated seriously and submissions were made from analysts. After the round table conference, over 230 memorandum were submitted to office of the coalition of northern groups  (CNG) for verification and input into the main report of the CNG.

Alhamdulillah, we were at the  government house on the invitation of the Northern State Governors Forum.

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We had our report which we submitted. Not only the report,  also, the implementation strategies.

“The implementation strategies will become the guiding principles. It will tell the governors what to do. It will tell the president what to do. Even you the media people, that implementation plan will tell you what to do. That’s what differs this report from other reports that have been submitted previously.

The report he emphasized entails anything that is called development in northern Nigeria.

“Alhamdulillah, we are very happy that we see light at the end of the tunnel and we believe that after the deliberation, insecurity in northern Nigeria will be a thing of history.

“We will restore not only security in northern Nigeria, we will restore peace and harmony.

We will co-exist with each other and northern Nigeria will once again be great and mighty.

The challenges of the north he said are numerous and the root causes need to be tackled.

“We have the issue of poverty, we have the issue of economy instability, we have the issue of social instability , we have the issue of failing family values but above all, we have the issue of insecurity.

“We must engage all people to be stakeholders in these issues. We must contribute our quota to ensure that we develop this region. We have no other place to call home than northern Nigeria. We are  duty bound to ensure that we give our maximum cooperation in order to ensure that we instal the glory of northern Nigeria. He emphasized.

Also speaking with newsmen was one of the members of Committee of experts on security, Alhaji Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, who said he was at the government house with some of his colleagues to meet with the governors to discuss the issue of security in northern Nigeria.
According to him,
 “l was there with my colleagues as part of the committee of experts on security to see the governors to discuss the issue of security in northern Nigeria.
“We briefed the governors on the report that we generated after extensive consultations. Consultations over six months, with all stakeholders across northern Nigeria and came up with certain recommendations on how to solve our insecurity problem in northern Nigeria.
The contents of the report, “we are not at liberty now to disclose to the media”. The report which already had been submitted to the president he assured will  bring about positive change in the security system.

 

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