• As Govs, Monarchs Storm Ibadan To Proffer Solution To Insecurity In Southwest
The Southwest governors, yesterday, stressed the need to tighten Nigerian borders to prevent foreign herdsmen from coming into the country without any form of caution, saying a number of them have come in with their herds and what they do is worrisome.
The Chairman of Southwest Governors’ Forum, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State stated this at the security meeting held at the Oyo State Governor’s Office, Ibadan.
The meeting was hosted by Governor Seyi Makinde at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s Office.
Top traditional rulers from the Southwest states were at the Oyo State Government Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan.
Traditional rulers present included the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi; Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji; Akarigbo of Remo, Oba Babatunde Ajayi and the Olugbo of Ugboland, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan.
The meeting also had in attendance members of the Oyo State Council of Obas.
The governors include, Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Kayode Fayemi
(Ekiti) and Dapo Abiodun (Ogun).
The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammed Adamu and the Director-General of State Service, Yussuf Mogaji Bichi were not physically present at the meeting.
It was gathered that the trio were unable to attend the meeting due to the bad weather that affected
flight out of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
Akeredolu said: “The discussion we had with our Obas and security chiefs have been most productive. Many things we never thought of came up and we heard from our Kabiyesis more mature approach to
challenges we are facing in the South West and the country at large.
“And from our discussion, we all agreed that the time is now that we support the decision of National
Economic Council (NEC) about forests management.
They believe that all the states should be in the position to manage their forests, which will give enough room to determine who is there, what purpose they are serving, and where you have people illegally.
The states should be able to take steps to enable us preserve our forests.
“We all agreed that our borders have become too porous, and that we need to do something urgently to prevent foreign herdsmen from coming into this country without any form of caution, because a
number of them have come in with their herds and what they do is of concern to us. We all believe that
our borders need to be checked and tightened, so that all those foreigners from Niger Republic and
those beyond bordering states don’t come in with their herds and destroy our farms.
“We also discussed that, as we are supporting other areas of farming, like rice farmers and others, there is
need for government to support cattle breeding.
“One of the ways we can support cattle breeding is to change the ways cattle breeders are adopting now. So, there will be designated grazing areas, as well as feed mills. With these, there is no need to trek with herds from far. But, things that will lead to open grazing in these modern times must be looked at and the state and federal government, in particular, should give as much support as possible to cattle breeders.”
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One of the ways we can support cattle breeding is to change the ways cattle breeders are adopting now. So, there will be designated grazing areas, as well as feed mills. With these, there is no need to trek with herds from far.

My yoruba people we must resist any attempt by these fulani slaves to take our land and give it to terrorist fulani herdsmen through the backdoor.
Let's stand against any form of ruga on our land

Any governor in the south west that allocate Land for land grappling schemes of terrorists Fulanis herdsmen should be voted out, anything beyond ranching we no want ham for sw

This useless Governors?...let them put the security votes given to them into good use...must they embezzle everything they see? Thesame sets of thiefs that kept palliatives meant for the populace to themselves especially the PDP governors...those once their greed quotient is out of this world..aswearagod....If the Governors are not willing to save guard their states then the youths should do the needful

I think south west leader are as worst as south east leaders

The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammed Adamu and the Director-General of State Service, Yussuf Mogaji Bichi were not physically present at the meeting.
It was gathered that the trio were unable to attend the meeting due to the bad weather that affected
flight out of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

So they could not travel by road?

Little wonder they are less concerned about the bad roads and insecurity on land.
Sometimes, I wish these bandits and terrorists have the power to highjack choppers and planes of these leaders. Something would have been done on the insecurities a long time ago if it affects them directly

You guys have been sleeping for a while now.. It's time to wake up from your slumber.

FG claimed of closing Nigeria borders meanwhile, northern borders was still operating while Southern border was shut.

Enough of online action, we need real time action about issues that's affecting us

blinking001:
This useless Governors?...let them put the security votes given to them into good use...must they embezzle everything they see? Thesame sets of thiefs that kept palliatives meant for the populace to themselves especially the PDP governors...those once their greed quotient is out of this world..aswearagod....If the Governors are not willing to save guard their states then the youths should do the needful

Why fixate your disgust on PDP?

Did you forget PDP is the APC Alma mater?

Monogamy:
You guys have been sleeping for a while now.. It's time to wake up from your slumber.

FG claimed of closing Nigeria borders meanwhile, northern borders was still operating while Southern border was shut.

Enough of online action, we need real time action about issues that's affecting us

No present day Nigeria's leader has the interest of Nigeria at heart. They all want to quickly cash out for eight years.

Tell me why we are not looking towards thoroughly deploying resources to secure these notorious northern borders since the beginning of Boko Haram?

The governors would rather pay ransoms than deploy same to secure the people.

Gandollaar:
No present day Nigeria's leader has the interest of Nigeria at heart. They all want to quickly cash out for eight years.

Tell me why we are not looking towards thoroughly deploying resources to secure these notorious northern borders since the beginning of Boko Haram?

The governors would rather pay ransoms than deploy same to secure the people.

Talk about Northern governor's paying ransom to terrorist... Southern leaders are too exposed to do such thing

Though I may have to agreed about the politicians not having the interest of masses at heart and that's due to the electorate repeating same mistake over and over again

Odua1stson:

My yoruba people we must resist any attempt by these fulani slaves to take our land and give it to terrorist fulani herdsmen through the backdoor.
Let's stand against any form of ruga on our land

Our Governors are very useless.