The Chief of Military Employees (COAS), Lieutenant Common Taoreed Lagbaja, has mentioned that until native communities expertise growth, it will be tough to finish insecurity in Nigeria.
Towards this background, the COAS mentioned that granting full autonomy to the native authorities areas would undoubtedly resolve the issue of insecurity within the nation.
Common Lagbaja said this throughout a Nigerian Military celebration in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Friday. He emphasised that until native communities expertise growth, it will be tough to finish insecurity within the nation.
“Why are the elites immune to native authorities autonomy, which persons are clamouring for? The surest option to carry growth to the grassroots degree is to make sure native authorities autonomy. It’s not by establishing commissions or bureaucracies. We now have already established bureaucracies. Till we take growth to the grassroots degree, we won’t resolve the issue of insecurity.
“For these acquainted with the North-East atmosphere, after I was posted to 93 Battalion in 1992, it was very straightforward to drive from Maiduguri to Munguno, Kukawa, and different locations inside three hours. However at the moment, it’s not potential. Good governance on the native degree is non-existent, and that’s what’s driving insecurity within the nation. This isn’t solely within the North-East but additionally within the North-Central and different areas,” Common Lagbaja said.
Our correspondent studies that earlier makes an attempt to grant autonomy to the native authorities system within the nation had been rejected by state governors. Nonetheless, the federal authorities was making a transfer to grant autonomy to the LGAs.
