Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has described the decision
of the Southern governors that security agencies must notify them as the chief
security officer of their states before they carry out any operation within
their domain as ‘late’.
Falana said this on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’
programme on Monday.
On Monday, Southern Governors discussed the invasion carried
out on the Ibadan residence of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday
Igboho by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, and other
matters of national concern, including insecurity, open grazing and the
Electoral Act.
The Governors demanded prior notification if, for any
reason, federal agencies need to undertake an operation.
They set September 21, 2021, as the deadline for anti-open
grazing law promulgation in member-states.
The Forum rejected the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the
removal of electronic transmission of results from the Electoral Act and
demanded that the presidency be zoned to the South in 2023.
The decision of the governors was made public in a
communique read by the Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, at the end of
the Forum’s meeting in Lagos.
Reacting to the development, Falana said, “It is a decision
that is coming rather late.
“Governors are chief security officers of their states in
line with the constitution.
“Each state has a security council and the governor is the
chairman,” he said.
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