Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has clarified that the much-criticised one billion dollars that state governors asked the Federal Government to withdraw from the Excess Crude Account was not meant for the fight against insurgency alone but for all security challenges being experienced in all the states of the federation.
Professor Osinbajo gave the clarification today at the opening of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Secretaries to State Governments’ retreat at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to him, the decision followed a security summit hosted two months ago by the NEC, which was “crucial in understanding and dimensioning the security problems of the country and the weaknesses of our security architecture.”
He said the security summit examined problems of kidnapping, small arms trafficking, terror activities of Boko Haram in the North East, clashes between herdsmen and farmers and cattle rustling.
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