Insecurity: sokoto youths challenge northern leaders on emergency summit

Aggrieved youths in Sokoto yesterday challenged northern elites and leaders in whatever capacity to keep sentiments apart and convene a regional emergency congress on the deteriorating insecurity in the region. The youths who advised that, northerners must put aside their religious inclination and see each other as one and confront the insecurity in the region said that only the north can solve its problem. According to the youths, northern leaders at all level must wake up to their responsibility and ensure that they collectively come together and make sure that they end the spate of unwarranted killings in the region. Most of the youths who did not want their names on print for security reasons, said the Boko Haram menace would have been long solved if the northern leaders are sincere and have the love and interest of the poor northern masses at heart. According to one of the youths, Shaibu Ladan, the region should stand firm and confront its challenges rather than trading blames. “Many assumed that the whole thing was simply a grand design to ensure that they cause dichotomy between the northern Christians and Muslims for some sort of political gains. “But, the truth remained, the dimension which the killings, either through bombing, shooting and slaughtering is taking has proved such observers wrong. “You and I know that, everybody is a potential target including all the leaders from the northern axis. Now, most people in some states of the north can no longer sleep with their two eyes closed.