Abdul-Azeez Suleiman is the spokesman for pan-Arewa organisation, Coalition of Northern Groups. In this interview with GODWIN ISENYO, he gives the coalition’s position on various current issues of national interestsecurity situation in the northwestern part of the country and indeed the entire North is increasingly becoming worrisome. What are your thoughts about this?
But only recently, Nigeria’s foremost military training institution, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna was attacked by bandits, killings two of its officers while one was abducted. What’s your reaction to this? The function of effective governments everywhere is to provide core guarantees to citizens in the three interrelated realms of security, economy, and politics, but here, the legislature in particular, appears failing to formulate or oversee the implementation of credible public policies to effectively deal with national security issues, build infrastructure and deliver services or effective and equitable economic policies.
Gumi also advocated for amnesty for repentant bandits as done to the Niger Delta militants during the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s administration. Would your group subscribe to granting amnesty to bandits instead of having them sent to eternity?
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