Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors’ Forum (NGF), Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara, says state governors can not enforce maximum security in their domains because they are not in control of security agencies.
Yari told newsmen in Abuja at the end of an NGF meeting on Thursday that the governors were working energetically with the federal government to tackle the lingering security challenges across the nation.
The NGF meeting, the third of its type this year, was convened to address critical issues facing the governors in their states in relation with the Federal Government.
The NGF chairman also told newsmen that the security challenge facing the nation was a global phenomenon which governments all over the world are striving to contain.
‘’The security situation in the country is a global issue and everywhere people are dealing with the security problem.
“The problem of security is what was inherited before the administration of today and before some of our governors emerged as governors and so as governors we are working to put in our best to support the security agencies in our respective states with logistics; that is what we can only do.
He said the governors received briefings from the Minister of Trade on the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Metrological Centre, Stamp Duty Revenue and Traffic Management; we observed that it helps in two areas. One to get revenue generated and two, to help insecurity,
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