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Honourable Aminu Sani Jaji is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State. The immediate past chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Internal Security recently spoke to select newsmen on the scourge of banditry and insurgency, as well as his appraisal of the recourse of some governors to the appeasement of the bandits. TAIWO AMODU brings excerpts.
One initiative some Northern governors, particularly in the North West, have tried to use to address the spate of insecurity is the appeasement of bandits through dialogue and cash awards. Do you think this has worked in your state, Zamafara, and others?
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No fewer than 10 states have not conducted elections into local governments despite the absence of elected officers in the councils.
Investigations on Monday showed that some of the local governments were being administered by caretaker committees constituted by state governors.
This contradicts a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court, which voided laws enacted by state Houses of Assembly that empowered governors to sack elected local government chairmen and councillors and replace them with caretaker committees.
Findings showed that states, which had yet to conduct local government elections despite the expiration of elected officers’ tenures included Ogun, Katsina Anambra, Kwara, Osun, Zamfara and Sokoto.