Northern Group meets Bauchi Community, urges societal reorientation to curb insecurity, other challenges

By Samuel Luka, Bauchi

Apparently disturbed by the myriads of challenges bedeviling the region, Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) on Thursday held a one day Community engagement in Bauchi state to brainstorm on how best to confront the situation and proffer workable solutions.

Speaking at the meeting, the National Coordinator of the CNG, Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanci, said the meeting in Bauchi was a follow up on what the coalition had earlier done in Abuja where so many issues that have been bedeviling the region were discussed.

He said that CNG is committed to unavailing and leading a robust sociatal value reorientation, devoid of blames, accremonies, finger pointing.

Charanci who noted that the Coalition of Northern Groups is into the business of building bridges and synergy to proffer solutions to the problems of the region, expressed believe that Community participation is a corner stone to effective governance and sustainable development.

“We equally believe that empowered communities are key to prosperous future, that is why we are here to call on all the stakeholders to unite, let us believe in ourselves, let us accept our challenges, confront them and alter them for a better tomorrow”, he said.

The group further pointed out that, in unity, the stakeholders can create a thriving Northern Nigeria that the citizens are all yearning for.

“We believe that it is through Community development that we can overcome the challenges facing this country or this region today, we believe that it is through Community participation, through community collaboration, through Community contributions that in Sha Allahhu we will have a safe Northern Nigeria that we can be proud of, the Northern Nigeria that we cherish to have, the Northern Nigeria that we have before”, he reiterated.

According to Comrade Charanci, the next line of action is to put on ground a committee that will be responsible for putting eyes on issues that are bedeviling the people living in Bauchi state in particular, like it did in Katsina state.

Comrade Charanci who explained that the committee will comprise of people from the various organizations in the North to put eyes on what is happening in Bauchi in order to offer solution to problems.

“They can offer solution, where security intervention for instance is required, they will alert the security personnel for quick intervention, where they need government intervention they will alert the government for quick intervention and where they can alert our national Secretariat they can do that, so that we can do the needful”, the National Coordinator stressed.

He expressed delight that the stakeholders at the meeting unanimously agreed that it is only through collaboration with all other people in the society that tangible result can be achieved.

“It is no more time for blame game, it is no more time for pointing fingers to each other, it is time for solution driven approach, and that solution driven approach is through Community driven solutions”, he added.

Comrade Charanci who emphasized the need for unity among the people, said that the region will bounce back to greatness, when united.

Also speaking to newsmen after the meeting, Vice Chairman, Muslim Parliament, Bauchi state, Ahmad Tijjani Sa’id commended the CNG for organizing the stakeholders engagement which he said will make greater input when extended to the grassroot.

He added that the Muslim Parliament is in total support of all the discussions and decisions taken at the meeting, which he expressed optimisms that, it will impact positively in the lives of the people of the region.

“In Muslim Parliament, our major concern is what should be the solution that will be of benefit to our people, among which 70 percent of them don’t even know that there is government, they are just living their lives without any workable govt policy within their reach. So, we are going to be a bridge between them and the government so that the govt will reach out to them and they will be aware of what it is doing”, he said.

Tijjani who decried the attitude of some bad eggs who are fun of vandalizing public properties, expressed the commitment of Muslim Parliament towards enlightening them on the need to take ownership of government or Public properties for a better society.