Centralised resource control fuels insecurity, underdevelopment – Gov Diri

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, connected Tuesday, launched a scathing onslaught connected the Federal Government’s centralised power of Nigeria’s earthy resources, accusing Abuja of operating a strategy that has deepened insecurity, entrenched injustice and near resource-producing communities trapped successful poorness and underdevelopment.

Speaking astatine the 2026 Democracy Dialogue organised by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation successful Bauchi, Diri argued that the country’s existent assets absorption model had go a large root of instability, peculiarly successful states wherever invaluable mineral and petroleum resources are located.

The politician said the attraction of power implicit mineral and petroleum resources successful the hands of the Federal Government had encouraged exploitation without corresponding improvement of big communities, insisting that galore of Nigeria’s information challenges could beryllium traced to the inequities embedded successful the existing structure.

“Resources are expropriated. Today, determination is golden successful Zamfara and different places, and what bash we experience? Insecurity,” Diri said.

“Most of the insecurity is besides traced to the find of golden successful Zamfara.”

According to him, Nigeria cannot proceed to expect bid and stableness erstwhile communities that make tremendous nationalist wealthiness re...