The Northern Groups on Wednesday declared that it would stage a protest in all the 19 northern states today [Thursday] against the security challenges in the region. While talking to the news men in Abuja, the spokesman of the coalition, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said the coalition would mobilise hundreds of youths in the region to the streets until their demands are met . He said: “We observe that while the southern elected and appointed leaders and representatives are quick to identify with their people at the time of need, their counterparts from the North, including the President, the Senate President, Senators, Rep members, governors, state legislators and other government appointees would rather abandon the hundreds of thousands of people in northern communities exposed to crime, lawlessness and insecurity in the hands of bandits, insurgents, kidnappers, rapists, rustlers, and other violent criminals without any form of protection. We observe that it is contradicto...
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