Worried by the violence that has trailed the protest in the Northern region, former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has called on the northern elite on the need for an urgent implementable master plan for the region.
He said governors, political, business, religious, traditional leaders and the intellectuals of the region must converge and urgently come out with an implementable master plan to tackle the decades of endemic poverty and destitution, Illiteracy, Chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism and terrorism that has demonised the region and impoverished its people.
Sani, who represented Kaduna Central between 2015 and 2019, added that President Bola Tinubu is neither the problem or solution to the crisis bedevilling the region.
He cautioned that the use of guns and tanks can suppress the flame sparked by the ongoing protest but not extinguish the fire.
The raging hardship protest has led to deaths, looting and destruction of properties in many states in the North. Protesters were seen waving Russian flags and calling for the return of military rule.
Although some governors have declared curfew in their states, protesters have continued to come out in defiance.
Concerned about the deteriorating situation, Sani, on his X handle said, “Northern leaders must take lessons from the recent violent uprising in the region. The President must be held to account, but he is not the Problem or the Solution to the Problem.The Governors, political, Business, religious, traditional leaders and the intellectuals of the region must converge and urgently come out with an implementable master plan to tackle the decades of endemic poverty and destitution, Illiteracy, Chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism and terrorism that has demonised the region and impoverished its people.
“Guns and tanks can suppress the flame but not extinguish the fire. The monster in our homes was not created in a day.
The North should look at the mirror and not the telescope. We have the cattle to build our wealth,we shouldn’t be looking for a scapegoat,” he said.
