Whereas the classical definition of democracy in rough and ready use is “Government of the people, for the people and by the people’’, for all practical purposes in our own experience in Nigeria we might as well defined it as ‘’Government of the Governors, for the Governors and by the Governors’’.
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This much has come to view against the immediate background of recent high profile meetings held by the Southern Governors Forum in Asaba the Delta state capital in which several issues like open grazing and restructuring of the country were discussed and decided, and the Nigerian Governors Forum where the Governors gratuitously decided without consultations with other stakeholders, the price at which petrol should sell in the country.
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ABUJA – The Federal Government says it will not engage mercenaries in the ongoing fight against insurgency, banditry and other violent crimes across the country.
Retired Maj.-Gen Babagana Munguno, the National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, made the position of the government known at the third edition of Villa Media Briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the briefing focused on the nation’s security challenges and efforts of the government towards restoring peace to troubled areas.
NAN reports that the House of Representatives had, on March 10, asked the Federal Government to hire foreign mercenaries to combat Boko Haram insurgents.
He stated this during the third edition of the Villa media briefing at the State House, Abuja.
Monguno, while reacting to a question on renewed calls by the North East governors on the federal government to engage mercenaries to defeat the Boko Haram terrorists, said: “The president’s view and the directive is that we will not engage mercenaries when we have our own people to deal with these problems.
“We have the personnel and resources, and the president has given a new lease of life to the armed forces.”
Daily Trust reports that Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, who doubles as the chairman of North East Governors Forum, had on Wednesday, March 3, called on the federal government to bring in mercenaries to help end the Boko Haram menace.
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