The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has lamented the severe economic hardship in the country and in particular the northern parts of the country where they say, some families can hardly afford a single square meal per day.
The CNG which raised the alarm on Saturday during a one-day community workshop held in Katsina State, said most people in the North cannot afford a good meal as a result of the lingering insecurity and socio-economic hardship plaguing the region.
The National Coordinator of the CNG, Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi, who addressed journalists at the end of the engagement, decried the situation in the Northern region, describing insecurity as the greatest bane and hence the need to find a lasting solution to the problem.
“People can no longer afford three square meals. We are not even talking about the three square meals; people cannot afford a single square meal per day,” the CNG coordinator said.
“Insecurity is walking with its two legs in the North. So these are the reasons we have seen, and we have come to realize that, the leaders are not even ready to address the problems and to some extent, not only the leaders but even ourselves we have a contribution to do so that at least we can get ourselves out of this quagmire.
“So, the CNG decides after the stakeholders roundtable held in Abuja to engage community people so that each and every member or stakeholder in the community will get to know how to contribute their quota towards alleviating insecurity, economic hardship, and all other crises bedeviling the North.
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“The main target here is the community to know how they can contribute to alleviate the problem bedeviling the region. The participants mostly leaders of various organizations are carefully selected. After this meeting, we will mandate the leaders to go back and summon their members and tell them all the information they have gotten here,” he said.
Charanchi also blamed the crisis in the country to a lack of quality leadership, noting that though many believe that corruption is the only problem in the country, there are myriads of issues facing Nigeria ranging from insecurity, economic hardship, and dilapidation in the infrastructure in the education sector, and health sector among others show there is a crisis of leadership.
“In as much as we can get it right, we can get the right leaders, we can get the leaders that have the country at their heart, we can get the leaders that have human feelings, we can get the leaders that act like messengers of God, we can get the leaders that will treat this country as they are going to treat their family definitely we will get it right.
“It’s very unfortunate we don’t have leaders in this country. All we have in this country are politicians and the problem with politicians. They always care about how to secure the next election. But a true leader cares about how to secure the next generation.
“It’s a waste of time to call on leaders to change because I doubt much if our leaders have fear of God. I doubt much if our leaders believe there is something we call hereafter, I doubt much if our leaders have something we call humanity, and I doubt much if our leaders believe that service to humanity is a service to God.
“We have self-centered leaders that believe in enriching themselves and looting the treasury. So, the only solution is to let the community come together to believe that, we are the government not somebody as the government, and let’s get it right from our constituency,” Charanchi said.
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