By ONIMISI ALAO, Yola

A group, Northern Youth Leaders Forum (NYLF), has raised alarm over alleged killings in parts of the North that are not being reported by either the regular media or social platforms.

NYLF says the killings, which mostly take place around the Northeast and Northwest, go unnoticed because reporters risk the wrath of the killers.

National Chairman of the group, Mr. Elliot Afiyo who stated this at a news briefing in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, said Nigerians, being unaware of such silent killings, live in false security.

He said, “We are very much concerned with the security challenges of insurgency, kidnapping, and banditry in the country, particularly in the Northwest and Northeast.

“We are pained that human beings are being slaughtered like chickens on a daily basis. The massive killings in Sokoto, Zanfara, Katsina, and Kebbi states which are on a daily basis are not reported for fear of being killed by the bandits.”

He accused the government of not making enough efforts to address the situation and called for a complete overhauling of the security architecture of the country.

He stressed that thorough overhauling of the system with a focus on senior military officials is needful because “the solution to solving these security challenges is beyond the sacking of service chiefs.”

Afiyo who also alleged a plan to destablise the country through a brutal second wave of EndSARS uprising, however, vowed that any further attempt to destroy valuable private or even government properties by hired destabilizers sailing as EndSARS protesters would be resisted by members of his group.

He said that his members, whose number he put at 4.8 million around the country, did much in fighting back and preventing #EndSARS looters from their targets during the last #EndSARS looting because the group opposes ‘the criminal looting’ that the supposed protests became. (The Nation)

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