The Sokoto State chapter of the Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG has given the Federal Government three months ultimatum to resolve the security situation in the zone or face mass action.

The threat is coming following the rising insecurity and just as North-West Governors’ Forum said in its meeting that to have a banditry-free society, all stakeholders must be committed at fighting the menace, and stop playing the blame game. It could be also recalled that Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State had advised the Federal Government to recruit Special Forces to fight bandits in their enclaves in the forest.  

The coalition in a communiqué issued at the end a one-day stakeholders meeting in Sokoto said it had mobilised youths in states in North West to ground activities in the zone until government stop banditry and other violent crimes.

Coordinator of the group Isah Jabbi Usman also blamed the activities of the outlawed volunteer vigilantes groups, known as Yan Sakai for the increase of violence in most parts of the north western states. He lamented the rising insecurity, particularly in Sokoto and called for immediate action to address the situations once and for all and faulted both the federal and state governments for not acting promptly to tame the situation at its initial stage.