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Coalition of Northern Groups, Wednesday declared that it would stage its own version of protest in all the 19 northern states against the security challenges in the region.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the spokesman of the coalition, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said the coalition would mobilise hundreds of youths in the region today to press home their demands.
“We observe that while the southern elected and appointed leaders and representatives are quick to identify with their people at the time of need, their counterparts from the North, including the President, the Senate President, Senators, Rep members, governors, state legislators and other government appointees would rather abandon hundreds of thousands of people in northern communities exposed to crime, lawlessness and insecurity in the hands of bandits, insurgents, kidnappers, rapists, rustlers, and other violent criminals without any form of protection.”
Sulaiman noted that the group is left with the singular option of protests in northern states, commencing from Thursday, October 15, 2020”.
