Your meetings are making no impact, Northern Youth Council protests against Governors

*says as long as almajiri child still roams the street, no end to insecurity

By Akon Eddy Kaduna

While the meeting of the Northern States Governors was going on at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, the National President, Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Comrade Isa Abubakar led his members on a protest to the venue of the meeting, over what they described as lipservice without actions from the 19 governors.

Comrade Isa Abubakar  said that there can’t be an end to insecurity in the north as long as an almajiri child still roams the street.

 

The national president of NYCN said they were out to protest activities of the Northern States Governors’ Forum as the youths do not feel the impacts of their perennial meetings. There has been such meetings from time immemorial till date, please can you tell me what are their achievements?

On insecurity bedeviling the northern region, Comrade Abubakar said;  “If the Forum is really ready to solve insecurity issue it is not in conducting several meetings; adding that the crises in Southern Kaduna is an internal problem  between Fulani herdsmen and people of that particular area.

“We’re here this morning to protest activities of Northern States Governors’ Forum, because as youth organizations, leaders and activists; we feel these governors have not lived up to their expectations.

“There has been this kind of meetings severally, but no impact especially in securing lives and property of citizens.

“There’s not going to be an end to insecurity in the north, as long as almajeri child roams the street.  There’s a need for the governors to holistically look at the almajeri system of education, and device a means of impacting Islamic knowledge on the young ones.

“Children should not be allowed taken from Maiduguri to Kaduna and so on without parental guidance.  If this practice persist, you think you can curtail insecurity in this country? We’re deceiving ourselves!

“The Forum need to engage the people of Southern Kaduna  as well as the Fulani herdsmen in dialogue to see how they can bring a lasting solution in that area.

“We must also learn to tolerate each other irrespective of our religion. Northern Nigeria has no tolerance for each other and this is a fact. Religious clerics must create more awareness on tolerance.

“People making incisive statements over the issue in Southern Kaduna should please put a stop to it.  Nigeria or Kaduna state is not a lawless country. We have laws so people should not take up arms to protect themselves, rather find means of dialoguing between each other so that we can find a lasting solution to the problem.

“Government must bring pepertrators of this heinous crimes to answer to what they have done irrespective of their positions in the society.

On the socio-economic state of the north, Comrade Abubakar said; “Investors are not interested  investing in the north due to insecurity. Youth of the region are jobless, there are lots of misconduct amongst them. Yet these governors keep telling them stories that there’s going to be light at the end of the tunnel from their activities.

“Investors can only come to a peaceful environment, and without peace there can never be development, so peace is a priority.

“These same governors travel out on exotic SUV Jeeps, while numbers of tractors are less on our farms. No fertilizers for local farmers to use. Foods in the region now are very expensive, this is totally unacceptable. People can’t afford to buy kerosene, firewood is not accessible, gas is not available.

“Workers are not being paid as at when due. Teachers are not well taken care of, but these governors go abroad investing in Dubai, Paris and so on but refusing to build the north. The youth are saying they’re not going to stomach it again. And as we approach 2019 general elections, we would also find means to change these crop of governors as we did the last ones. We will vehemently keep on condemning the bad attitude of these governors. They use the youth while not doing what is expected of them,” Comrade Abubakar thundered.