A group under the auspices of the Northern Consensus Movement (NCM) has said that a Northern Nigeria Ministry will tackle insecurity, provide jobs for teaming youths, and reduce the number of out-of-school children roaming the streets in the region if created.

According to the group, the region needs special attention in order to address its socio-economic challenges in the region.

The President of NCM, Comrade Awwal Abdullahi Aliyu, who made the call at a retreat also noted that with the creation of such a ministry, emphasis should be placed on specific project implementation, such as in Education, Health, Security, Agriculture, Economy, Environment, Women and Youth Development of Skill acquisition activities Management.

Aliyu stressed that the challenges in the north have become a problem that has eaten into the fabric of the society, inflicting pain, suffering, and division on the Northerners regardless of who heads the government.

According to him, “This malignancy is so embedded and enmeshed into the northern fabric that we do not seem to notice the pain, the division, the destruction and the retrogression that it has inflicted on us as a people in our northern politics and our society at large.

“The northern voters have always determined who become the President of Nigeria through popular vote. But the northern political competitors through propaganda have always used population against the region, claiming that the North wants to take power on all cost, claiming that the North is using population to dominate the polity.

“Through this intimidation, the north has always been compelled to make political concessions. Politicians have always negotiated their power-sharing mechanism, something to the detriment of democratic values with adverse effects on the north.”
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