The Northern Elders Forum, NEF has cried out over the growing insecurity in the northwest region of Nigeria, describing it as becoming uncontrollable while also calling all authorities concerned to save the region.
The Director, Publicity and Advocacy of the forum, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, lamented the plight of the region while speaking in a press statement on Monday.
In a press statement which he personally signed which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York, Baba-Ahmed disclosed that despite the efforts of the government to curb the ugly trend of insecurity, the situation in the region is deteriorating, saying that the northern youths are not impressed with the authorities’ response.
‘Our villages in the northwest zone are being emptied. Thousands of people, due to constant attacks, have relocated to the urban cities and the relations in big towns now cater for displaced villagers, deepening poverty,‘ he said.
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He insisted that Nigeria has become a safe haven for different terrorist groups, downplaying the description of criminal elements in the region as bandits.
‘In actuality, northwestern part of Nigeria has become the safe haven of increasingly active terrorist groups, including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS); Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM); Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb; and a splinter of Boko Haram popularly referred to as the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP),’ he added.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the Federal Government has on many occasions promised to step up the security in the region which has not really materialised into real actions against the various non-state actors who are currently terrorising the country on many fonts.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK