{"id":146439,"date":"2025-01-16T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/were-doing-everything-to-unify-get-north-back-on-track-hamza-al-mustapha"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:18:15","slug":"were-doing-everything-to-unify-get-north-back-on-track-hamza-al-mustapha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/were-doing-everything-to-unify-get-north-back-on-track-hamza-al-mustapha","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re doing everything to unify, get North back on track \u2013 Hamza Al-Mustapha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, a Nigerian military head of state, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd) has spoken of plans to unify the North<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mustapha stated this while interacting with newsmen at the sidelines of an event in memory of Sardauna Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of Northern Nigeria, organised by the Rebuild AREWA Initiative for DEVELOPMENT (RAI4D) in Kaduna,<\/p>\n<p>The former Chief Security Officer to the late Abacha said it would be wrong to sit idly and watch the North decay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstitutions 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, identifying the problems and rather than seeing succour, we would always continue to see crime rate being on the increase which is a capital shame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mustapha alleged that incumbent leaders from the region were directionless and did not care for their states.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mustapha expressed sympathy over what happened on January 15th 1966, and for the condition of the common man in the North and Nigeria as a country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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