The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has
unveiled the Northern Regional Security
Initiative code-named “SHEGE KA FASA” for
ratification by the northern governors as part of
measures to address security challenges within
the region, according to a report by Nigerian
Tribune.


According to the group, “SHEGE KA FASA” is
designed to be the vanguard of the entire
North encompassing every ethnic group and
religion and to be deeply patriotic in its
operation.

It also resolved to formalize this request by
writing to the governors through the Northern
Governors Forum and to the leaderships of
traditional, religious and cultural institutions in
the region.

The spokesperson of the group, Abdul-Azeez
Suleiman while addressing the press before the
unveiling said that the security challenges
manifested in 2008 in the form of a deadly
insurgency from the Northeast and within a
short time, spread to other parts of the region
and virtually turned the entire region into a
battlefield.

“For the past 12 years, the North has struggled
with disabling challenges that include dwindling
economy, rising poverty and more worrying, a
crippling security situation that has taken a
huge toll on lives, property and the overall
cohesion of the region.

The Coalition noted that while the insurgency
raged, other disturbances were created in the
region in the form of cattle rustling that pitched
northern communities against each other.

“A new dimension was introduced to the
farmers/herders conflict which gradually
deteriorated into an uncontrollable proportion
and deepened the artificial rift between
communities in the region.

“This trend suddenly metamorphosed into
deadly armed banditry and kidnapping for
ransom which is recycled for arms and drugs.
This is in addition to another frustrating trend
of the theft and forced trafficking in northern
children to other parts of the country for
reasons that are largely dubious.

“The situation today, on most northern
highways, innocent travelers are waylaid,
robbed and abducted, towns and villages
attacked and sacked by bandits who have
created an atmosphere of palpable fear across
the region.

“As the situation grows more desperate by the
day with the North as the most porous and
vulnerable, with northerners as the most
distressed and estranged.

CNG maintained that it is absolutely impossible
to expect that communities would continue to
fold their arms while criminals invade their
abodes, kill, abduct and displace them.

“By this, today we unveil the symbols for the
Shege Ka Fasa outfit which would be formally
inaugurated in the coming few weeks when all
necessary legal processes might have been
completed or formally adopted and ratified by
the northern states governors.” It stated.

CNG, therefore, observed that, there is an
apparent correlation between the current
security situation and the unchecked
proliferation of hard drugs and other dangerous
substances and that the current security
challenges in the region are therefore driven by
the proliferation of firearms and hard drugs
which are deliberately introduced into the
region by outside interests.

It also observed that the drug and firearms
trade is fueled by illegal funds channeled by
international financial criminals such as Yahoo
boys desperate to launder money into the
country and that already, this trend has
completely undermined the economic and social
fabrics of the North, and is responsible for the
rampant social problems like banditry, armed
robbery, kidnapping, and other forms of
security challenges witnessed today.

“That the current desperate situation in the
North can be largely contained and eventually
controlled by intensifying the task of
anticipating and checkmating the manoeuvres
of all criminal elements and blocking the supply
channels for such dangerous merchandise as
firearms and drugs.

“That this task can only be successfully achieved
with the active involvement of the members of
all northern communities that are at the
receiving end of the apparent security lapses.

“That is the prevailing circumstances, the only
option is to resort to voluntary self-defense
mechanisms in line with initiatives taken by
other regions that are even least affected in
comparison to what obtains in the North”.

CNG, therefore, resolved that “Against the
backdrop of these concerns and observations,
the Coalition of Northern Groups does not wish
to remain silent or passive and allow things
that affect the North and potentially cause
greater instability in the country to continue
unchecked.

“Aware also of the need for concerted efforts to
assist the Federal Government to restore peace
and security and to disband all militias and
armed groups in northern Nigeria to ensure
that no group has the capacity to challenge the
State in its prerogative to maintain law and
order, and protect citizens’ lives and properties,
the CNG has:


“Initiated practical measures for the setting up
of a northern regional security outfit to
compliment the efforts of the police, the
military, the security services to detect, expose
and defeat all criminal machinations and carry
out specific and general tasks that would
realign the attitude and thinking of the public
with the ideals and objectives of the founding
fathers of the region.

“In addition to performing general
complementary tasks for enhancing security in
the region, the outfit shall also Coordinate
operations against the influx of hard drugs into
the North, take steps to neutralize all centers of
gravity for the supply, manufacturing, and
distribution of such drugs and other dangerous
substances”.

The group further revealed that the outfit will
Coordinate vigilance to check and expose illegal
arms trade, supply channels and possession.

Guard against the theft and illegal traffic in kids
and other vulnerable sections of the northern
population and expose operations of fraudsters
like the Yahoo boys whose ill-gotten wealth
forms part of the source of funding for the
drug and arms trade.

The group calls the attention of all governors of
northern states to the urgent necessity to join
their counterparts in the South-West and
South-East by adopting and ratifying this
initiative for northern regional security and
providing the necessary legal framework for its
operation in order to secure the lives of the
people that are in constant threat.


https://tribuneonlineng.com/just-in-north-forms-own-security-outfit-shege-ka-fasa/

Shege bansa!!

Thank God our people are now waking up!!

Shege kafasa!!

Nigeria is about to divide and I'm happy the division is very close...

Let's devide and move on...

That's when we'll know who the main parasites are...

It is now crystal clear this country needs to be restructured constitutionally