NORTHERN elders have accused the rotting frailty in the country particularly in the North West and East, West international zones on certain pioneers and elderly folks of the locale whom they said,saw the peril in the start of the emergency yet would not say reality.

They said the attachment of religious and regional considerations in dealing with the crisis was the bane of progress in the war against insecurity as according to them,such considerations resulted in leading them to advising President Muhammadu Buhari against picking security chiefs outside the North.

This, according to them, weakened the zeal with which the war against terrorists was being waged by most handlers of the crisis, thus emboldening the adversaries.

The elders under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development,in a statement, Friday, particularly traced the origin of heightened insecurity in the North to the appointments made by President Buhari in the security circle with little consideration for professionalism and proven competence.

“As difficult as it is in speaking the truth, we feel constrained to admit that our quick resort to religious, ethnic and regional considerations led us to advise the president in wrong directions.

“The war against insecurity could have been a thing of the past if we had made good and informed decisions. We believe the complete consideration of our interest in making appointments into security agencies among other things led us to this present situation. Our decision resulted in deep drop in the pursuit of the war against terrorists thus emboldened the adversaries on the other hand.

“Many lives and property have been lost and destroyed. Frontline troops were falling every day to a more determined group of insurgents and bandits but our decision to remain quiet and not say the truth as things were happening,led us to this present situation,”the elders said in the statement.