Fayemi Leads NGF Delegation to Kaduna, Donates N50m to Train Attack Victims
POLITICS DIGEST – The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, yesterday led a two-man delegation of the Forum to Kaduna State to commiserate with the government and people of the state on the recent Abuja-Kaduna train attack which claimed many lives, injured many people while several others were kidnapped.
The NGF Chairman while announcing a donation of 50 million Naira, expressed deep sympathy to Kaduna State and its people and described the attack as “mind-boggling” because of the huge number of casualties and other fatalities.
He added, the criminals were audacious enough to also take away some hostages which according to the NGF Chairman raises the state of insecurity in the region to the cusp of uncertainties, which has virtually thrown Kaduna in the mix.
Fayemi, who was accompanied by Governor Badaru of Jigawa state wondered if the entire crime was the handiwork of some enemies of the state government or its governor who is transforming the state to their chagrin and are therefore working to distract the state from its path to development.
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He said that everything was currently unnecessarily revolving around 2023, the election year, “which we are not even sure we will be alive to see with the prevailing state of circumstances,” and advised that more should be done towards securing the country.
He said the North-west of the country had been a region of calm and consensus before now and emphasised that whatever it is, to do, governors will continue to put heads together along with the President whom he added is himself very worried about the sequence of attacks to bring sanity back to the country.
The Ekiti State governor also concurred with the Kaduna governor on his solution to banditry in which he has always advocated that federal government takes proactive action by going after the bandits right in their enclaves and rooting them out..
“I agree that we as governors must join hands with the President to deal ruthlessly with the bandits, that they be crushed, as you have always advocated,” concluding that the primary purpose of government is ensuring the safety of lives and property but the impression in the minds of most Nigerians presently is that nothing was being done by the security agencies in the country to bring an end to this.
Meanwhile, Governor El-Rufai welcomed the party and ceded the opportunity to respond to his deputy, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, whom he said has been in the forefront of finding solutions to the problem from the beginning.
He thanked the NGF for its efforts and donations and wished the delegation a safe journey home
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