No fewer than 87 youth civil society organizations (CSOs) have thrown their weight behind the newly established and inaugurated committee that will profile Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Donor Partners in Kano state.
At a press conference on Sunday, the leader of the Youths Mobilization by Media, Salisu Gambo Detol, said that the youth coalition supports the government reform initiative.
According to Comrade Detol, “The aim is to ensure that the objectives of the CSOs align with the government’s development priorities.
“It is also to protect the dignity, integrity, moral and cultural values of people in the state by screening and monitoring the activities of CSOs,”
He cited an example of a viral video in which an American politician and congressman from Pennsylvania, Scott Perry, said the United States Government is funding terrorism in Nigeria and other African countries through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Comrade Detol said, the youth coalition would not tolerate CSOs that would be used by foreign donors to destroy the morals and culture of the people through intermarriage, and sponsoring terrorism.
“We are in full support of the reform that the Kano government wants to implement.
“We distance ourselves from other groups that do not agree with the committee and the government reform.”
The state government has the right to form a committee to scrutinize and sanitize any organization that promotes immorality or dubious activities, he added.
