CNG alleges foreign plot behind rising attacks in north

From Charity Nwakaudu, Abuja

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has accused both foreign interests and local collaborators of fuelling the renewed wave of killings, kidnappings, and attacks across northern Nigeria.

In a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Jamilu Aliyu Charanchi, the group claimed the violence bears the marks of a well-funded conspiracy aimed at destabilising the region and lending credibility to what it called “fake genocide narratives” being pushed abroad.

CNG criticised the United States for allegedly falling for misleading reports on Plateau and Benue while ignoring heavier casualties in Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Kebbi and Borno. It also faulted former US President Donald Trump for being “misled”, saying his envoy, Massad Boulos, had already dismissed the genocide claims as false.

The group linked the surge in church attacks, mass abductions and the killing of a Brigadier General to a coordinated plan to weaken the North. It lamented the closure of 47 Unity Schools, warning that shutting schools in an already disadvantaged region deepens the crisis.

CNG cited recent kidnappings in Kwara, Kebbi, Niger and Zamfara, including the abduction of 315 students and teachers, as proof that insecurity has escalated beyond ordinary banditry.

The group demanded that the Federal Government expose terrorism sponsors—local and foreign—deploy Service Chiefs to crisis zones, secure all schools and worship centres, shut porous borders, and counter what it described as “dangerous international propaganda”.

CNG warned foreign actors, NGOs and local collaborators against exploiting the North’s tragedies for political motives, declaring that the region “will not sit back while its communities are turned into battlegrounds.”