BY NONYELUM JULIET
Kaduna
Group under the auspices of Democracy Watch Initiative leading twenty-seven other Non-governmental organisations with shared interest in good governance across the northern region has called on the federal government to declare State of emergency in Zamfara State over insecurity.
The Spokesperson of the group, Sanusi Ali Mohammed made the call on Sunday while reading the text of the press conference in Kaduna titled ‘Ailing for State of Emergency over Deteriorating Security In Zamfara’.
“We are calling for the immediate proclamation of a state of emergency in Zamfara State because the people have shed enough tears and blood in the last two months without an appropriate response from a state government that appears to be helpless in the face of this mounting security crisis.
“We call the attention of the federal government to the reality that only the declaration of a state of emergency can assure the people of Zamfara that they have not been abandoned at the mercy of a rampaging banditry and kidnappings”.
The group further said that, declaration of state of emergency can free the people from stranglehold of the bandits and criminals.
The group also alleged that the Governor of Zamfara, Lawal Dare is the worst in the history of Zamfara State.
“Governor Lawal Dare has inadvertently acquired the reputation of being the worst in the history of Zamfara State in terms of any capacity to generate confidence in achieving credible goals”.
“We urge the federal government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the security forces to fight the escalating security challenges in Zamfara State with resolve and awareness of their obligations under the law, as well as the knowledge that victory will only be pronounced when the nation achieves full cessation of hostilities, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in Zamfara and the entire northern region.
“With security, Zamfara can feed itself and feed the rest of Nigeria. But when cost of inputs become prohibitive, threats to lives limit productive capacities, herds are stolen or limited by weak government responses and damaging political interests, the economy of this otherwise productive segment of the country suffers”.
