Gamji President urges North to develop industrial blueprint
Arch. Ahmed Kabir Abdullahi
The National President of Gamji Heritage, Arch. Ahmed Kabir Abdullahi says the North should develop an industrial blueprint to utilise its massive resources for the development of the region and the country.
Arch. Ahmed gave the advice at the opening of the 2025 National Annual Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Conference, organised by Gamji Heritage in Kaduna, to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of the Premier of Northern Region, and the Sardauna of Sokoto.
He said that contemporary realities of the region paint a bleak and disturbing picture that requires collective action to salvage.
The Gamji Heritage president said that the North deserves lasting peace and economic re-engineering to save it from its present condition.
He observed that the region has been largely undone by the actions of its leaders and followers.
“There is a near total betrayal of the North by no other than the North itself,” he observed, adding that the solution lies in collective action devoid of sentiments other than propelling the region to economic growth and development.
Arch, Ahmed also said that certain national policies have contributed to stagnating the region.
“There are other problems that arise as a result of our union within the Nigerian nation – devaluation of the naira, subsidy removal.
“We recognise that there are gains in these policies of the government. We urge the government to pursue the gains in these policies to reduce the hardships of the citizens.
“Government must get the prices crashing, get the dollar value crashing and strength the naira.”
He urged participants at the conference to come up with workable solutions to the myriads of problems confronting the Northen region.
The Gamji Heritage president reeled out over 40 legacy projects of the late premier, which are still serving the region, and urged Northern leaders to work for the people, not their selfish interest.
The Chairman of the Conference, Amb. Ibrahim Mai Saleh said that to change the negative narrative of the Northern region, leaders and citizens must develop a positive attitude toward the affairs of the region.
“To change Arewa, we must change ourselves individually and collectively,” he added.
In this respect, Saleh said that the youth must begin to unite for common purposes so as to drive positive change across the Northern states.
He decried the disturbing security situation in the region and said traditional rulers should be empowered to meet with bandits leaders and exert agreement for peaceful co-existence, an essential non-kinetic approach to ending conflicts across the world.
The Syndicate reports that the conference attracted traditional rulers, technocrats, media and security experts, elders, and young people from across the Northern region.