The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called on the
Nigerian government to intensify efforts to curb the general and pervasive
insecurity across the country as well as the rampant intake of drugs and
dangerous substances in order to have a successful 2023 general elections.
The CNG spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, in a statement,
said that Nigerians expect the government to bring a conclusive end to the
daunting security challenges that characterised the country last year.
According to the statement, “In the North especially,
government, should, with the entire national resolve behind its efforts, work
to achieve final disengagement, disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and
reconstruction within the next few months. Unless this is done as quickly as
possible, the 2023 elections would be greatly threatened and that would, in
turn, affect the nation’s democratic progress and set the country back several
decades.”
It explained that it expected the Federal Government to
review and improve the current structure of the national security assets,
increase the number of boots on the ground, improve quality of equipment and
greater synergy with the communities.
The CNG advised state governments in the north to listen to
advice, design a uniform approach to the insecurity situation with the full
involvement of the communities.
CNG opined that the drug situation in the north is one of
the most serious social and security challenges facing the region and the
country today.
It stated that no nation can aspire to greatness or seek to
remain secure and safe when its youth and the productive segments of society
are left to indulge in self-destructive practices like drug and substance
abuse.
It said the serious challenges the region is faced with
ought not to be treated with the level of levity and condescension shown by the
governors of the affected northern states with a view of finding a way out to
the problem.
Suleiman suggested that the security problem must be confronted
collectively with the entire will and resolve of the people behind the effort
if it is to build on the current successes by the gallant troops in the north
east in order to ensure a peaceful society.
The statement explained that failure to take necessary steps
would indubitably mean that every effort made in isolation will defeat all the
endeavours, and render the task of ending the crisis more difficult and futile.
It called on all to become stakeholders and be committed
actors in the struggle to free the society and the country of the debilitating
problem.
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