A former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has assured they are working plans to get the North back on track and to get it unified.
Al-Mustapha stated this while speaking to journalists at the sidelines of an event in memory of Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Northern Nigeria.
He said it would be wrong for them to sit idly and watch the North decay.
He said to bring back the North on the path of progress, “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 final end, would be the beneficiary of the unity in the North.”
He explained that “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 bedevilling the North.”
”Therefore, identifying the problems and rather than seeing succour, we would always continue to see crime rate been on the increase which is a capital shame.”
“We cannot sit and say, we are from the North and continue to see institutions decay, crime rate on the increase, leaders indifferent, younger ones in disarray, and we believe that is the right environment to be.”
“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. 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.”
