Convener of the Youth Arise Movement, Comrade Ademola Babatunde.
The Youth Arise Movement has urged the Federal Government to urgently direct all relevant security agencies to develop and implement comprehensive strategies aimed at protecting rural communities from bandits, kidnappers, and other criminal elements ravaging the country.
The group, in a press statement signed by its Convener, Comrade Ademola Babatunde, and released on Sunday in Abuja, expressed deep concern over what it described as the worsening insecurity across Nigeria, urging President Bola Tinubu and all relevant authorities to take urgent and decisive measures to safeguard lives and property.
“For over fifteen years, Nigerians have endured relentless attacks from terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, and other criminal elements. Thousands have been killed, kidnapped, displaced, and subjected to unimaginable suffering. Communities have been destroyed, businesses crippled, and places of worship and learning turned into targets of violence,” the statement partly read.
Babatunde particularly identified rural communities as among the most vulnerable, citing inadequate security presence and limited protection mechanisms as factors that have left them exposed to repeated attacks.
