Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has attributed the worsening insecurity in the North West to failure on the part of immediate past governors of states
The current governor, Mr Sani, made this known when he appeared as a guest on television on Tuesday.
He also stated that the insecurity in the country’s North-west worsened because of the wrong approach adopted by the immediate past state governors from the region in fighting the situation.
Mr Sani revealed that states within the North-west and Niger State, which shares a boundary with the region, had earlier met to work out a framework to tackle regional insecurity in collaboration with security agencies with the former governors initially allied to work together after floating a joint committee and accepting to collectively fund the fight against insecurity. However, that failed to work.
He further pointed out that the alliance by the former state governors broke down when some state governors decided to start engaging the bandits and terrorists, sitting with them, dining and winning with them, compensating them, negotiating with them.
He lamented that the approach was what actually brought the entire progress backwards.
Presently, Mr Sani, said he has met with newly elected governors from the North-west in Abuja, about two weeks ago, to revive the alliance and, subsequently, came up with a policy framework to address the worsening insecurity in the region.
Governor Sani confirmed that they have agreed to have a common approach to the issue and will move away from the steps made by some previous governors that decided to compromise the operation in the past when they started giving money to the bandits and negotiating with them.
