Insecurity: Borno youths protest, demand stronger action against terrorism

Youths and students successful Borno State on Sunday staged a protestation successful Maiduguri, calling for stronger enactment against coercion and different forms of insecurity portion urging Nigerians to unite successful the combat against criminality.

The protest, tagged UniteAgainstTerror, was organised by younker and pupil groups and held astatine the Post Office country of the Borno State capital.

Speaking during the protest, the person of the Youth and Students Forum successful Borno State, Suleiman Muhammed, commended the Federal Government and information agencies for securing the merchandise of abducted pupils and teachers successful Oyo State, urging authorities to intensify efforts to rescue victims inactive successful captivity successful Borno.

He besides cautioned against paying ransom to kidnappers, saying specified payments would embolden transgression groups and worsen the country’s information challenges.

Muhammed called connected the authorities to complement information operations with younker empowerment and different measures aimed astatine addressing the basal causes of insecurity.

“We convey the authorities for what they person been doing, but we privation them to bash much to bring an extremity to insurgency. 

There is besides a request to supply an enabling situation for youths to trim transgression successful the country,” helium said.

Another protester, Khadijat Abdullahi, urged the authorities to put much successful the country’s information ar...