Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has defended the northern governors’ trip to the US, saying it was to seek out lasting solutions to the insecurity ravaging the region.
The governors had come under fire over the current journey to the US. However Radda mentioned the go to was a part of strikes to deal with security within the north, explaining that they had been invited to the assembly.“Ten governors had been in the United States, Washington D.C and we had a symposium with the USA Institute of Peace in order that we are able to result in concepts that can finish insecurity that’s worrying our people and is a major downside to the subnationals they usually carefully selected the governors of the places affected by banditry and kidnapping,” he mentioned on Friday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“All of us sat for 3 days and we had been capable of cross-fertilise concepts and work together with all stakeholders which might be concerned in bringing about lasting peace and safety globally,” the governor mentioned.
Regardless of criticism over the assembly with many questioning why it was held within the US and never in Nigeria, Radda has defended the journey.
“The assembly was not on the occasion of the chosen governors of northern states nevertheless it was on the occasion of the United States Institute of Peace. They had been the individuals who invited us; they hosted us for the assembly. We had been invited to take a seat with them in order that we may result in lasting solutions to the problems that are affecting our people,” he mentioned.
In response to Radda, the US trip afforded the governors recent insights into the safety challenges riddling the northern area.
The northern area has lately been battling banditry, kidnapping, and a variety of safety points.
Tons of have been kidnapped and killed over time for the reason that safety problem heightened.
A number of causes have been attributed to the rising spate of insecurity within the north however Radda has dominated out political undertones.
”The problem of the hypothesis behind political motive as responsible for banditry will not be true,” the Katsina State governor mentioned, highlighting injustice and poverty as the basis causes of insecurity within the north.
Source:- Channelstv
