Military, Police Chiefs Must Go – Northern Leaders

 Military, Police Chiefs Must Go – Northern Leaders

They described as disappointing, the President's failure to appreciate the magnitude of the threats, which the protests posed to national security, stability and unity.

group of northern leaders has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately change the leadership and structures of the military and police in Nigeria.

They described as disappointing, the President's failure to appreciate the magnitude of the threats, which the protests posed to national security, stability and unity.

The group stressed that the continuation of protests could lead to negative consequences that include more dangerous acts of lawlessness.

This, it said, would worsen the state of insecurity of citizens as well as pose serious damage to the economy, increase the negative influence of foreign interests in the country's national affairs as well as further damage the image and confidence of security, law and order institutions.

They urged the government to show a more determined effort at fighting the Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and kidnapping in the North, as well as the assumption of full responsibility to maintain all Internally Displaced Persons' (IDP) camps in the northern states.

It called for an immediate resolution of the strike by ASUU and immediate resumption of all tertiary institutions as well as commitment from governments not to prosecute or punish peaceful protesters and the establishment of a judicial commission of inquiry into the killing of protesters in Lagos and other parts of the country.