He said this will impact the lives of the people, asking them to stop dissipating energy and resources in organising peace and security summits and conferences within and outside Nigeria. In a statement he signed on behalf of the Patriots for the Advancement of Peace and Social Development, Shinkafi noted that the problems in the zone require political will and pragmatic actions, not empty rhetoric as obtainable in the past 12 years which has not changed the narrative.
Most of the bandits are uneducated both in western and Islamic education. Leaders in the zone failed to invest in education, in building primary and secondary schools, adult education and Almajiri schools. They left the children to roam about the streets begging, sadly many of them were recruited into armed banditry, terrorism and other social crimes. 'The existing schools are not renovated and equipped let alone building new schools. School teachers are not motivated and are underpaid.