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April 20, 2019
TheArewa Consultative Forum, ACF has lamented the poor approach of northern stategovernors towards education in the region, particularly with the increasingnumber of out-of-school children, describing it as unfortunate.
Thiswas a part of the communiqué at the end of the group’s National ExecutiveCouncil of the ACF after its quarterly meeting held under the chairmanship ofAbubakar Girei, who stood in for the Acting Chairman, Musa Liman Kwande. The meeting was attended by the nineteen northern states and Abuja.
Accordingto the communiqué, the meeting discussed security challenges, especially therunaway banditry involving kidnapping and killing of innocent people on thehighways and frequent attacks on communities, causing growing death toll in thestates of Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto, Kaduna and Taraba.It also noted that the underlying causes ofinsecurity differ from one geopolitical zone to another, hence the need forgovernment to consciously develop appropriate measures to contain the situation