By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent
The Arewa Economic Advancement Campaign (AREA-C) has decried that majority of northerners now go to bed hungry hence the group called on northern elites to brace up for the looming challenges by addressing the massive poverty ravaging the region.
The group laments that despite the trillions of naira given to governors of the region from the federation account at regular intervals, ” majority of the region’s citizens go to bed hungry.”
The group, in a statement issued by its director of Publicity, Nasir Dambatta, while urging northern leaders to be more proactive in the fight against high poverty said: “it is indeed worrisome that many entrepreneurs, seasoned bureaucrats and elected representatives seem too cool to care about the current levels of mass poverty in the North, while some of them merely seize the opportunity of public functions to advertise our woes.”
According to the statement, the group was formed by young Northerners, “uncomfortable with both the alarming levels of poverty in the region and the lamentations by those who already have the resources to help out but resorted to advertising our problems and seemingly refusing to be the solution.”
The group expressed surprise over “the inaction of those who are blessed with the extra resources to plough back into tackling poverty but appear too cool to care about our maledictions.”
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