Northern governors launch Security Trust Fund to tackle insecurity

The Northern States Governors Forum has noted that the threats posed by banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, cause maltreatment and different forms of criminality person continued to undermine peaceful coexistence, disrupt livelihoods and weaken societal cohesion, thereby slowing the gait of improvement successful the region.

Speaking successful Kaduna connected Wednesday astatine the gathering of the Northern Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the inauguration of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Security Trust Fund, its Chairman and Governor of Gombe State, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, said the governors were agreed successful the condemnation that the information situation successful Northern Nigeria requires prompt, coordinated and decisive measures to rescue the portion from the brink of full collapse.

According to him, “While the Federal Government bears superior work for nationalist security, the complementary efforts of the 19 Northern states are needed truthful arsenic to enactment national information efforts, facilitate quality sharing, f...