The Northern Consensus Movement (NCM), a pressure group in the North, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to create a new ministry that will take care of the multifaceted problems facing the region, similar to the Ministry for Niger Delta.
Speaking during a press conference in Kaduna on Saturday, the President of NCM, Comrade Awwal Abdullahi Aliyu, said the new ministry should be known as Ministry for Northern Nigeria.
According to him, the entire region is bedevilled with one problem or the other, “take for instance, the North West; there’s serious security breaches like banditry, kidnapping and rustling; in the North East, there’s the Boko Haram and other related insurgences, while in the North Central, there’s the herders/farmers clashes.
“So why not create a ministry for Northern Nigeria Development like what we have in the South South, where they have a ministry for Niger Delta with a senior minister, he stressed.
He lamented that: “Despite the advantage of the region in terms of politics, the mirage of problems confronting it deserves a better approach.”
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Commenting on these problems, the NCM president noted that “the challenges of contemporary Northern Nigeria like in education, health, infrastructure, agriculture, security etc, have eaten into the fabric of our society, inflicting pain, suffering and division on us, in spite of who is the head of government.
“We need to understand the nature of this political problem, so that we can begin to develop a much more leadership policies for the good of our Northern Society and people.”
In conclusion, he said, “the creation of the Ministry will address the infrastructural deficits and challenges of decades of neglect.”