#EndSARS: 36 Governors Meet IG |The Source

By Uche Mbah

The Federal Government has scheduled a meeting with the 36 states Governors and the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the ongoing anti-FSARS protests across the country.

The meeting is also meant to review the general security in the country.

Stakeholders had, on various times, called for the sack of Security Chiefs over the level of insecurity in the country, but the presidency apparently thought nothing of their complaints. And recently, things came to a head with the #EndSARS  protests across the nation against police brutality in general.

Even with the dissolution of the outfit, and its replacement with SWAT, the protesters are not impressed.

Agency reports, however,  stated that the 36 governors in the country are meeting with the IG on the issue.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, a statement issued by Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Head, Media And Public Affairs, in Abuja on Wednesday said that Adamu would be joining the NGF 19th teleconference meeting to explain the security situation.

Bello-Barkindo said that the Governors in the virtual meeting, beginning, by 2 pm on Oct. 14, would also be briefed by the technical committee on electricity tariffs.

“The Ministers of Works and Housing, Communications and Digital Economy and Humanitarian Services and Disaster Management will also be on hand to address the governors, one after the other.

“The Humanitarian Resources and Disaster Management Minister, Umar Farouk, will be discussing how to lift a hundred million Nigerians out of poverty with the governors.”

Other matters to be discussed at the meeting according Bello-Barkindo include the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) Summit scheduled for the last quarter of the year and the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF).

He added that the governors would also discuss the conclusions of the distribution of palliatives by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) a conglomeration of banks and some pubic spirited philanthropists including Alhaji Aliko Dangote.