Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) in Kwara state, Dr Alimi AbdulRazaq, has called on all Nigerians to join hands with the federal government to urgently halt insecurity in the North in particular and Nigeria in general.
Dr AbdulRazaq noted that government needs the support of all Nigerians in tackling the hydra-headed security challenges facing the country.
Alimi, who is a legal icon and Mutawali of Ilorin made the call during a meeting with the executive members of Kwara state’s chapter of ACF led by their chairman, Dr Mohammed Ghali Alaaya.
He, however, urged the government to do more in funding the security agencies, adding that more still needed to be done in the area of intelligence gathering in the fight against insurgency, banditry and other violent crimes across the country.
Alimi, who identified unemployment as one of the causes of insecurity applauded the federal and state government’s efforts at creating massive employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths through implementation of robust agricultural policies.
He described the government’s considerable strides in the development of agricultural value chains through the interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a right step in the right direction.
On the reviewed agenda of ACF in Kwara, Alimi said: “Today’s meeting is a watershed in the life of ACF in Kwara state. It gives us fresh opportunity to recommit ourselves to the developmental agenda of northern Nigeria as integral part of a united, stable, secured and prosperous Nigeria.
We shall make it more impactful in terms of the development of Kwara and Arewa.”
He pledged his support for full realisation of the reviewed agenda of ACF in Kwara which will impact positively on the state.
