Stories from Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
The former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd), has stated that work to get the north to backtrack and unify is in progress.
Speaking at the sidelines of an event in memory of Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern region, organized by the Rebuild Arewa Initiative for Development (RAI4D) in Kaduna, Al-Mustapha said northern stakeholders couldn’t sit idly and watch the North decay.
He said: “We know we would hurt people. It is better to hurt people and get it back on course for us to achieve what we desire so that the country at the end would be the beneficiary of the unity in the North.
“Institutions that are in the 19 Northern states are either weak or not there at all.
We are seeing gaps that are responsible for the social ills confronting the North.
“That’s why when you allow wounds to get bad, definitely in the process of healing, there must be pains.
“So, without mincing words, we are calling for processes of healing. We are not only calling; we are part and parcel of it. We may say one or two things that may disturb segments of leadership, old and young, it matters not.
‘If there is, the economy would be affected, security, social problems, the politics in itself, politics and polity, democracy would be healthier, and then, I can see other parts of the country would also copy”.
