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#EndNorthBanditryNow trends on twitter as Northern elders group lampoons Buhari over insecurity, IDPs’ hunger

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October 13, 2020

Members of the Coalition of Concern Northern Elders for Peace and Development on Monday expressed concern over the continued silence of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the growing calls for him to rejig the security architecture in the country.

According to them, the resolutions of the National Assembly that the President should act swiftly to stop the increasing bad situation was enough for him to act, given that they are the representatives of the people.

The COCONEPD, in a statement by its National Chairman, Dr Mohammed Suleiman, and National Secretary, Hajiya Mairo Buni, said the worsening security situation in the country had caused untold hardship on women and children in both the North-East and the North-West.

The organisation said the insecurity in the country had reached a boiling point, adding that only the sacking of service chiefs as first step in addressing the ugly development could be acceptable by Nigerians.

The northern elders said that the 2021 budget proposal that was presented to the National Assembly by the President could be difficult to fund should the President fail to address the situation immediately.

The statement read in part, “We are compelled by the current state of the nation, especially as it affects the security of lives and property in Nigeria, particularly in the North to issue this press statement.

“This coalition became very necessary and urgent to lend our voice to the growing insecurity and call for the sacking of the current service chiefs and total overhaul of the security architecture of our country before it is too late.

“We are worried about President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence despite call by every arm of Nigeria, including the National Assembly. Some international organisations and authorities have faulted our security architecture and called for the need to restructure same; yet Mr. President is still not moved?

“Is he waiting for all Nigerians to die first? In a constitutional democracy, the people are the employers of the President and for a President to write his name in gold, he must listen to the people.

“We in this group insist that President Buhari is a good man that means very well for Nigeria and Nigerians, but we strongly believe that he is being misled on a daily basis in the happenings of the security.

“No Nigerian sleeps with his eyes closed anymore. Our roads and homes are no longer safe because of robbery, kidnapping, banditry and Boko Haram terrorists.”

The organisation said that apart from Maiduguri town, there had been no community in Borno State where people could sleep with their eyes closed.

The COCONEPD said while malnutrition “is the order of the day in IDPs’ camps across North-East”, investors had been “leaving the country on a daily basis because of insecurity.”

The group added, “We call on the President to take this first step and follow it up with restructuring the entire security architecture of the country for utmost results. Nigerians, especially the youths are tired of the level of insecurity in the country. The large turnout by youths on the #EndSARS campaign across the country is an indication that Nigerians are tired of excuses.”

In another news youths from Northern Nigeria has risen up the the occasion to lend their voice just like most of the youths in southern Nigeria did, but this time on the high rate of banditry and killings by Boko Haram members using the hash tag #EndNorthBanditryNow

Below are some of the tweet gathered by Edujandon.com

Save the north #EndNorthBanditryNow #EndNorthBanditry #EndBokoHaramAndBanditry pic.twitter.com/Olk5KhEGe6
— kitty kitty 🐱🥀👑🔱💡 (@Aashfinn) October 12, 2020

This is personal for all of us and if we don't stand a chance and fight against it one day it will reach us in our own houses so enough is enough we didn't for vote all of u for killings,robbery,kidnapping and a lot evils things happening in this country #EndNorthBanditryNow pic.twitter.com/Upqn6Jqb2M
— 👑CH🅰️FERIAN🆔️🇳🇬 (@Yakubu_sanda) October 13, 2020

GOOD MORNING
RETWEET 🙏🙏#EndNorthBanditryNow pic.twitter.com/kAiWDRKQQS
— Khaleeferh06 (@Kaleepha6) October 13, 2020

We Katsina People support SARS, instead of their dissolution, the I.G should have transfer the whole SARS (Nationwide) to Katsina State, to help tackle this issue of Banditry, Kidnappings and robbery.

We support SARS to be reformed not dissolved.#EndNorthBanditryNow pic.twitter.com/vaTBgWFSYk
— Umar Buzu (@buzu_umar) October 13, 2020

After we win the war against #EndSARSNotBanSARS , #EndNorthBanditryNow or even sef we run em Simultaneously
Bandits killed Mohammed Awal in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, Sept 5th 2020… I’m from Enugu he’s from Kano, but he was my brother. @mrmacaronii @SavvyRinu @Waspapping_ pic.twitter.com/9omBkrCZQy
— END SARS (@Iyke0z) October 13, 2020

We need more security in the north. Day in, day out our people are dying. The promises won’t save us, we need action please. Pls rt #EndNorthBanditryNow #TheNorthisbleeding #EndBadGovernanceinNIGERIA #Endnorthkidnapping pic.twitter.com/mo5Rx3ochm
— The Son of Jigawa (@Mr_genius01) October 13, 2020