A former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Mr. Shehu Sani has urged the Northern leaders to enforce a blueprint that will help to address the challenges in the region.
This comes amidst the nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests that resulted in looting in the region.
His words: “Northern leaders must take lessons from the recent violent uprising in the region.The President must be held to account, but he is not the Problem or the Solution to the Problem.
“The Governors, political, business, religious, traditional leaders and the intellectuals of the region must converge and urgently come out with an implementable master plan to tackle the decades of endemic poverty and destitution, illiteracy, chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism and terrorism that has demonised the region and impoverished its people.”
The human rights activist said that the problems in the Northern part of the country started a long time ago.
“Guns and tanks can suppress the flame but not extinguish the fire. The monster in our homes was not created in a day.”
He added: “The North should look at the mirror and not the telescope. We have the cattle to build our wealth, we shouldn’t be looking for a scapegoat.”
