The Coalition of Northern Groups has criticised the Northern Governors’ Forum and stakeholders who recently called for the regulation of the social media.
In a statement on Thursday by its spokesman Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the group expressed dismay over the call.
The forum led by its chairman and governor of Plateau Simon Lalong, several traditional rulers and key Aso Rock officials had met in Kaduna to discuss the #EndSARS, social media and others.
The coalition, however, said it expected the meeting to have discussed poverty, unemployment, insecurity and youth restiveness.
“We are disappointed that such a meeting should lack the courage to make clear pronouncements on the unprovoked attacks on northerners and their properties at a time when their southern counterparts are proposing claims of trillions of Naira in compensation for their people,” the group said.
The statement added that they are equally dismayed that the meeting, “lacked the requisite statesmanship to define the northern position with regards to the falsified reports around the fictitious attacks on Lekki protesters that is causing the nation international worries.
“It is disappointing that the meeting felt to see as priority the need to send a delegation to ascertain the extent of damage and to console the affected northerners in the southern states.”
