Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi, says Boko Haram escapees from the North-East part of the country are infiltrating other parts of Nigeria as bandits and kidnappers.
With the recent onslaught on 43 rice farmers in Borno State
by Boko Haram insurgents, some concerned persons have opined that the
President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), declare a state of emergency
on insecurity in the North-East.
But speaking on Sunday, Fayemi said the insecurity in the
country is not limited to Borno State or the North-East as there is a nexus
between terrorists’ activities in the North-East and the banditry in the
North-West as well as the kidnapping in the Southern part of the country.
The Ekiti State governor, who spoke last night on Channels
Television’s Sunday Politics programme, therefore, called for a holistic
approach to ending menace.
He said, “If a state of emergency were to be declared, I
have no opinion on that, we haven’t discussed state of emergency as far as the
Governors’ Forum is concerned. And that is not something that our colleagues
who are at the receiving end of the insurgency has proposed to us. Governor
(Babagana) Zulum or our North-East colleagues have not said anything about
state of emergency.”
Fayemi added, “Insurgency is not limited to Borno State. We
will be making a mistake if we do not draw a correlation between what is going
on in Borno State and what is happening in other parts of the country –
banditry, kidnapping, militancy, they are inextricably intertwined. Some of the
insurgents that escaped from the Boko Haram territory are the ones prosecuting
the banditry in the North-West, some of them are involved in the kidnapping in
the South-West.
“ISWAP (Islamic State West Africa Province) insurgents
coming down from Sudan, from Niger (Republic) are involved in what is going on.
How many states are you going to declare state of emergency on then? So, we
must take a holistic view on this.”
The governor said the state governments should be given more
powers to handle the security of their domains, adding that anything that will
help Nigerians overcome the insecurity in the country, the Federal Government
and the National Assembly must do.
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