Govs pledge to embrace science, technology

Coalition of 15 Civil Society Organisations based in the north has accused some Northern governors of turning the rising cases of kidnapping and banditry in the region into a money-spinning venture.

The groups, under the umbrella of Non-State Actors Consultative Forum (NOSACOF), also kicked against Governors of Zamfara and Katsina states as well as the northern elite fronting for negotiations with terrorists as an alternative to military intervention to end insecurity in the country.

Addressing journalists in Kano yesterday on insecurity in northern Nigeria, co-convener of NOSACOF, Ibrahim Waiya, alleged that political actors in the North had devised a new strategy to grab public resources through negotiation with bandits.

Waiya stressed that the new trend being orchestrated to undermine national security architecture and efforts of the military to wipe out terrorists might spell doom on the nation if not quickly addressed.

He also condemned the action of the governors, who are granting amnesty to bandits, terrorists and abductors, insisting that such action was tantamount to legitimising terrorism in the country.

Contending that paying bandits ransom was the same as empowering the terrorists with public funds to purchase more sophisticated weapons against the state.

AS part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the increasing crime rate in the country, particularly in the North, the Chairman of Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF), Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, has disclosed that governors from that region have decided to deploy science, technology, and innovation to tackle unemployment in the region.

Lalong had, during the last meeting of the forum in Kaduna, stated that Northern governors had decided to build a new industrialised northern Nigeria to address poverty and idleness, which were the major causes of security challenges facing that part of the country.



According to him, the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) had been designated as the technical partner to the governors in this process.

Lalong disclosed this yesterday in Plateau Government House when the Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Prof. Mohammed Haruna, and the agency’s management team visited him.

“All states of the North are embracing the human capital development strategy and knowledge-based economic infrastructure together to develop the northern parts of the country and there is no going back on this,” he said.

https://m.guardian.ng/news/northern-governors-accused-of-turning-kidnapping-to-money-spinner/

There is no kidnapping going on in the North. It is the most peaceful place in the whole of Africa. IPOB should stop spreading fake news.

Governors? Governors that makes billions of dollars by giving contracts for themselves will risk everything for few millions. Fake news

Who doesn't know that. northerners are hell bent on using Niger delta oil money to empower themselves in the name of paying ransom to terrorists

It is

The worst thing to ever happened to us Biafrans is sharing this expiring contraption with northerners.


An average northerner is a potential terrorist.

Always trying to reap where they didn't sow

Kidnappers are terrorists. The American approach of not negotiating with kidnappers and should be employed. ..

There is a video where one of those kidnappers was confession that it was government that was giving them AK47

of cos , they are all looking for different ways to milk the cow, so they came up with this. we know that it is political.

Ok

Business is really moving

Two foreign expatriates supervising Afao Ekiti -iIgbemo Ekiti road were kidnapped yesterday Afternoon.
This kidnapping issues ought to be totally condemned and criminalized by d Governors.Rather,they use it as publicity stunt.
Community Policing and Local vigilantes need to be empowered by the governors cos they know d terrain and are primarily loyal to their communities.

Governors of PDP in the North

agitator:
There is no kidnapping going on in the North. It is the most peaceful place in the whole of Africa. IPOB should stop spreading fake news.

you're mad bro

It's visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that the money paid are no longer called Ransom but rather youth empowerment.
They are cashing out in the north but they do not realise it is the same thing as shooting themselves in the leg. It's always the poor almajari masses at the receiving end.

Na so

Of course, everyone knows this by now..

In other news, oxygen has been linked to breathing

If not for our weak legislature... And institutions all this radarada no suppose possible how will a governor turn to middleman btw federal government and kidnappers/bandits/terrorists....

Northerners have successfully used and exploited the so called food blockade to the south to swindle the rest of the country.

Miyetti allah, northern food union and whatever they are called in association with Buhari’s govt backed by the military and police have just duped the rest of Nigerians of N4.5b.

You can see another reason we can not be with drinkers of blood and eaters of flesh

Let bandits come, we go settle them

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Too bad

que serai serai

Fact of the matter. It's very obvious to everyone that this is a new business in the north, with the approval of their government

Idiot governors

oyeb15:
Two foreign expatriates supervising Afao Ekiti -iIgbemo Ekiti road were kidnapped yesterday Afternoon.
This kidnapping issues ought to be totally condemned and criminalized by d Governors.Rather,they use it as publicity stunt.
Community Policing and Local vigilantes need to be empowered by the governors cos they know d terrain and are primarily loyal to their communities.

They won’t approve community police because they know it will spoil chops for them. Bunch of animals

still typen

awon weyrey

We already know this
No matter how much northerners steal from federal purse, they can never be better than the south
Who God has blessed, no one can curse

It is what it is!
Contraption expired 2014!
Whatelse do you expect?
They are in the grabbing season!
APC= A
PARTY
OF
CONFLICTS

QED.