Federal lawmakers from Southern Nigeria yesterday supported their governors’ call for restructuring of the country, adoption of state police and a ban on open grazing.
They also called for restructuring, the convocation of a national dialogue, state policing, review of resource control and revenue allocation formula, as well as strict adherence to federal character principle in federal appointments in the shared interests of the federating states. The senators lamented how southern farmers were losing hundreds of millions of Naira to plundering of food crops through encroachments on farmlands and exposing the region to famine and acute food scarcity.
“With this uniform resolve by our governors to initiate no-open grazing policy, the region will return to its peaceful and agriculturally self-sufficient status it had assumed even long before Nigeria’s amalgamation in 1914”. The Senators submitted that such deft and unanimous policy would help in reining in those hiding under cattle grazing to unleash the terror of kidnapping and killings on the residents of the region.
“We hold that such is a sure step towards checking the infiltration of bandits, armed herders and terrorist elements, which has heightened security challenges with escalated killings and bloody attacks on innocent citizens, while crippling social life, economic activities and food production in the region.
The lawmakers those kicking against devolution of powers and review of revenue control and allocation formula to desist from their vested parochial interest and note that such reviews are the only way to stabilize the nation engender regional or state productivity and healthy development at all levels.
It also applauded the governors for taking far-reaching decisions on issues of skewed appointments into federal government agencies, including security agencies.
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