Disturbed by frequent killings,
maiming and destruction of properties almost taking over the region, the Arewa
Youths Consultative Council, has unveiled a new sustainable security project
for the entire 19 states in the north.
The projects, tagged, “Project
SUSPRONS 2021-2031”, which targets 2,750,000 youths across the 19 states, was
also aimed at rejuvenating the psyche of the northern youths to rise above
being allowed to be used as veritable tools for political thuggery, joining
banditry, and other criminal groups that today helps in the near destruction of
the northern region.
The AYCC in a meeting on Saturday
in Kano discussed the basic fundamental strategies that will free the region
from the bondage of insecurity.
“We are here to talk senses to
our selves bring about means that will be aimed at proffering solutions to the
insecurity problems that bedeviled Northern Nigeria,” the National President of
the Council, Zayad Ayuba Alhaji, said.
According to the National
President of AYCC, the event will launch a strong project that will plot how
banditry, kidnapping and other social atrocities will be curtailed before 2031.
“This project, called SUSPRONS
will engage youths in the whole 19 Northern states across the federation to
work assiduously in making it history before 2013.
“That it will the capacity of
women to actively play their roles as mothers and to empower them in
encountering violent extremism… That the project will discourage recruitment of
youth into banditry, kidnapping, Boko Haram among other criminal acts,” he
said.
He said the council will engage
and sensitize the youths who are critical stakeholders to bring the beginning
and the end of banditry, kidnappings and Boko Haram insurgency in the north.
Similarly, the group planned to
build the capacity of women to actively play their roles as mothers and to
empower them in countering violent extremisms and radicalism amongst the
children.
Zayad, said other things they
planned to do is discouraging the recruitment of youths into various criminal
gangs, banditry and jihadist groups through awareness and capacity development
initiatives.
“The overall projects are
targeting 2.75 million youths across the 19 states of the North plus Abuja.
“We are establishing a permanent
and reliable avenue for engagement and sensitization of young people across the
north for them to rise up against insecurities in the region,” he said.
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