The Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has said southern governors should focus on protecting their people instead of playing blame games.
Ndume was reacting to the the decision of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in the South-West, South-East and the South-South geopolitical zones of the country.
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The decision of the governors has been supported by senators from the south.
But Ndume, who represents representing the Borno South Senatorial District in while addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, said open grazing was only causing insecurity in
some parts of the South- West in the entire south.
He said, “As far as I am concerned, this blame game will not solve the problem.
“Governors are the Chief security officers of their states, so, why are they talking about the President without talking about themselves?
“The governors are deviating from the matter. The problem is not about open grazing. The problem is security. Most of the insecurity problems confronting Nigeria is not in the bush.
“We have four different types of security challenges. We have the insurgency in the North-East, IPOB through the Eastern Security Network is creating insecurity in the South-East, and there is banditry in the North-West.
“It is only in the North Central that we have issues of farmers-herders clashes. There is less problem in the South-West except for the clashes between the herdsmen and the farmers and the agitators for the Yoruba nation.
“Similarly, in the South-South, they are trying to instigate the avengers but so far the area is peaceful. The issue of insecurity is unique to each zone.
“President Buhari has taken charge of the security personally now. It used to be the Chief of Staff or the Minister of Defence who was having meetings with the service chiefs but today, the President has taken charge of the problem.
“That is a good development and I hope we would start seeing results but the most important thing is for them to be provided with necessary equipment to prosecute the war and their allowances should be paid in time.”
