Northern group, Northern Elders Forum, has lamented that the region is under threats of bandits. It said while the region still lives under Boko Haram’s threats, large swathes of territory in the North have effectively become bandits’ land.
The forum’s chairman and convener, Ango Abdullahi, stated these while addressing a news conference on behalf of the group in Zaria, Kaduna State.
The forum, therefore, demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should demonstrate higher levels of concern and sensibility to the plight of traumatised citizens, especially in Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Benue, Niger, Plateau and Taraba states.
The forum further demanded for decisive, comprehensive and fundamental governmental action against poverty, under-development and insecurity.
The northern elders called on President Buhari to show leadership and compassion, which are the reciprocal expectations of the Nigerian people from their President.
