Governors will battle insecurity with each fibre of their being, the Nigeria Governors Discussion board (NGF) has mentioned.
The Discussion board added that the governors wouldn’t succumb to these perpetrating insurgency within the nation.
The Chairman of the Discussion board and Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, spoke on Tuesday in Minna when he led a delegation to Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello over the kidnappings within the state.
Fayemi mentioned: “The agenda of those individuals is to destroy the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That’s their final agenda. It’s both we succumb to it or we battle it. And I can guarantee you that we are going to battle it with each fibre of our being. We’ll battle it to save lots of our individuals.”
He mentioned as governors they owed the individuals the obligation of securing their lives and properties.
Fayemi added: “Our first duty as Governors is the safety and welfare of our individuals. We don’t need to lament as a result of our individuals count on us to repair these issues. Our individuals need us to discover a everlasting answer to this cycle of violence, banditry, insurgency and criminality bedevilling our nation.
“All our individuals need is to have the ability to sleep of their homes with their eyes closed and that’s the obligation we owe them. What this implies is that we have to come collectively as a rustic as an alternative of partaking in blame video games both as leaders or as residents.
“We have to discover each avenue to deal with this menace, we have to discover different avenues facet by facet with regardless of the safety establishments are doing. If meaning partaking in dialogue, we could not have a selection however to interact within the dialogue. Something that may assist us cope with this disaster.”
Fayemi continued: “Terrorism, be it kidnapping, banditry or no matter title you name it, these are the remnants of the actors of the north east which have discovered themselves in different elements of the nation. It’s the remnants of terrorism that we’re nonetheless coping with. That’s the reason we should not deal with the north east in isolation.”
Sani-Bello appreciated the Discussion board for figuring out with the individuals of Niger State at this attempting interval.
In accordance with him, the Federal Authorities ought to do extra to discover a remaining decision to insecurity.
“The time had come for us to return collectively and impose on the federal authorities to do the needful. There’s a want for the federal authorities to proffer sufficient intelligence and discover a remaining decision to this menace occurring in our states
“Dialogue is nice. We’re engaged on securing the discharge of the scholars and employees of Kagara secondary college by dialogue. We’ll dialogue with the bandits as a result of we’ve realised that they’ve completely different missions and causes for doing what they’re doing. We’ll dialogue to take a look at their causes in addressing them,” he mentioned.
