Plateau Killings: Governors Meet on State of Insecurity Wednesday

Increasingly concerned by the growing spate of terror attacks, the latest which resulted in the murder of Senator Gyang Dantong, the Majority Leader of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Gyang Fulani, and more than 100 victims in Plateau State, state governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) are scheduled to meet Wednesday in Abuja.

The governors will be expected to discuss, among other contentious issues, the nation’s security challenges.

The need to convene the meeting by the governors followed the continued condemnations over the killing of the lawmakers by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, his Abia State counterpart, Chief Theodore Orji, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who decried the killing of innocent Nigerians in Barkin Ladi, Plateau State.

THISDAY gathered that the governors were summoned by the Chairman of the NGF, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, so they can deliberate on the security implications of the massacre of more than 100 people, including the killing of Dantong and Fulani.

It was also gathered that the governors will also renew their demand for state policing as part of the constitution review and the eradication of polio from the country.

In their last meeting on June 25, the governors had demanded the creation of state police commands, and condemned the spate of insecurity and violence in the country and called for a multi-dimensional approach in tackling the situation.

The governors also emphasised the need for state policing, which they said, had become necessary to combating insecurity at state levels.

This, they argued, had become necessary because the state governments were currently overstretched in funding security.
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