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Suspected hoodlums numbering about 100 on Monday have disrupted the
Northern region’s Security Review meeting of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) in Arewa House, Kaduna.
CNG had organised a meeting which was scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the insecurity in the northern region when armed men broke into the hall.
The meeting which is themed ‘Module for Broad-based Community Action for Self Defence, Deeper Engagement and Enhanced Synergy between States’, is aimed at creating synergy between communities and government security and designing a uniform approach to the current security situation in the North, especially as over 300 schools were kidnapped in Katsina State by bandits.
Participants expected at the meeting included traditional rulers, religious leaders, civil society groups, youths, the business community and other stakeholders from all 19 northern states of the country.
However, while the meeting was on, the attackers were said to have stormed the venue of the event and disrupted the meeting.
Tables were turned upside down, while a glass door was shattered in the process. Valuable items were carted away, mobile phones and properties worth millions of Naira were also destroyed.
While addressing newsmen, Chairman of the Coalition, Balarabe Rufai described the attack as unfortunate, labeling those who sponsored thugs to come after them as ‘enemies of the north and Nigeria’.
Rufai explained that just as the meeting was kicking off; sponsored armed thugs stormed the auditorium after subduing the civil guards at the gate. They came in with Machete and other weapons and started attacking people.
“Majority had to fly out through the window to escape. We are very confused on what actually transpired. But I want to assure people that this objective we have of reviewing security situation in the north where people are being killed on daily basis won’t continue. We cannot fold our arms and watch.
“Whoever is behind this attack (hoodlums) is an enemy of the north and enemy of Nigeria. This attack won’t deter us. We are going to have another meeting in another place and discuss how to complement government’s effort in bring out security outfit that is multi-sectoral, where all people will come in and have what we intend to call Arewa Security Marshall,” he said.
Similarly, spokesman of the group, Abdulaziz Suleiman issued a press statement aside disrupting the event, the “hoodlums overturned tables shattered glasses, attacked the guests and officials, wounding several people and smashing vehicles parked in the premises.”
According to Sulieman, “it is disturbing that a battalion of armed thugs can stroll free across the streets of central Kaduna wielding dangerous weapons without the intervention of the security. Security only arrived hours after the thugs had left.”
He said, “It is quite obvious now that some powerful forces are benefiting from the current security situation and would do everything for it to continue.”
Suleiman however pledged the commitment of his group to ensuring the safety and security of the North and its people.
Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari on Monday told President Muhammadu Buhari that the abductors of students in Kankara Local Government Area of the state have contacted them. “The Governor, who […]
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