Insecurity: Northern Elders Warn Government Over Imposition Of Curfew, Restrictions

Northern Elders Dialogue board has warned that among the many measures being taken by some state governments will compound the decided circumstances of residing of many communities throughout the north.

The dialogue board recognized that measures akin to suspension of markets, restrictions on sale of petrol, closure of schools and some roads, declaration of curfews, and restriction on movement of cattle and the Federal Authorities’s plans to restrict communication will solely do additional damage to the people.

This was contained in an announcement signed by Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Director, Publicity and Advocacy of Northern Elders Dialogue board and made on the market to journalists in Abuja,

The organisation talked about it was intently monitoring the scenario of many Northern communities “which have flip into notably weak to assaults and abuse by bandits, kidnappers and related organized criminals.”

The Dialogue board talked about that the federal authorities should not stop at imposing this restrictions, demanding that “those who have powers to impose them even have clear ideas over what they might acquire and when.”

The group recognized that these measures end in digital monetary and social lockdowns on people who had been on the mercy of criminals for a really very long time.

“Till they’re accompanied by an aggressive and environment friendly assault on the banditry and kidnapping enterprise, they might merely add to the misery and hopelessness of our communities,” the assertion added.

“Worse, they might extra embolden the bandits and the abductors when it turns into clear that governments and security companies cannot transcend lockdowns on communities.

“Communities themselves will lose rather more faith throughout the functionality of the Nigerian State to answer to their decided circumstances.

“The notion that communities are on their very personal should not ever be allowed to take deeper roots, nonetheless it will, when people see solely the bandit and the kidnapper worthwhile.

“The Dialogue board calls on the federal authorities to assist States to alleviate communities which are really residing under additional pressures.

“State governments imposing additional hardships on communities ought to know that the measures they’re introducing ought to produce tangible outcomes inside a interval that makes them vital and tolerable.”