Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, Chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum, has declared that the worsening security crisis across Northern Nigeria has reached a critical stage where silence, hesitation and routine government responses are no longer acceptable.
Yahaya, who is also the Governor of Gombe State, made the remarks on Monday while addressing the Executive Committee Meeting of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Dutse, Jigawa State.
Speaking on the theme, “Peace, Unity and Development of Northern Nigeria,” the forum chairman described insecurity as the greatest threat to the region’s survival, warning that persistent banditry, insurgency, farmer-herder clashes and communal conflicts are steadily eroding social cohesion and economic progress.
According to him, peace, unity and development are inseparable, stressing that no meaningful development can take place in an atmosphere of fear and violence.
He lamented that entire communities have been displaced by criminal attacks, while farmers have abandoned their farmlands, markets have collapsed, schools have shut down and millions of residents now live in constant fear.
