The Northern Elders Council has decried the increasing spate of insecurity in Nigeria’s north, calling on the Federal Government to device new ways of curtailing the activities of members of the Boko Haram sect.

Addressing a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the chairman of the council, Mr Tanko Yakasai, condemned elders and politicians, who promote hate, incitement, intolerance and violence to create disharmony and general instability in the polity.

“Various attacks by Boko  Haram and other ethno-religious crisis in the north as well as violent crimes of kidnapping and armed robbery in other parts of the country pose a serious challenge to the nation. There is also wide spread poverty and unemployment.

“In an effort to find a solution to this national menace, there have arisen mutual distrust and suspicions leading to utterances by some people capable of affecting the standing, respectability and unity of the north in particular and the country in General,” Mr Yakassi  said.

The council advised Nigerians to reject anybody who makes inciting, divisive and provocative statements capable of undermining the nation’s unity and democracy.

A group had last week accused politicians in Borno State of fueling crisis in the the state, saying that politicians use thugs against oppositions.

The Nigerian government has involved military actions in tackling insurgency in the northern, but it has not brought the insurgency to an end.