Nigeria Governors Forum Gives Out N50M To Victims Of Kaduna Train Attack.

Members of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) have donated the sum of fifty million Naira (N50,000,000) to those affected in the Abuja-Kaduna train attack.

Reports by New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) disclose that a statement by Head, NGF Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on Friday, said that the forum Chairman and Governor of Ekiti, Dr Kayode Fayemi, made the donation when he led a two-man delegation of the forum to Kaduna State.

Fayemi said that the delegation was in the state to commiserate with the government and people on the train attack which claimed lives, injured many people, while several others were kidnapped.

Fayemi said, ”regrettably, the criminals were audacious enough to also take away some hostages which raised the state of insecurity, which has virtually thrown Kaduna in the mix.”

The Ekiti governor wondered if the entire crime was the handwork of some enemies of the state government or its governor, trying to distract the state from its path to development.

Fayemi regretted that, ”everything is currently unnecessarily revolving around 2023,” advising that, more should be done towards securing the country.

He said the North-West of the country had been a region of calm and consensus before now.

The governor emphasised, ”whatever it is, governors would continue to work with President Muhammadu Buhari to bring sanity back to the country.”

Fayemi also concurred with the Kaduna governor on his solution to banditry, in which he has always advocated that government takes proactive action by going after the bandits right in their enclaves and rooting them out.

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“I agree that we as governors must join hands with the President to deal ruthlessly with the bandits, that they be crushed, as you have always advocated.”

He added that the primary purpose of government was ensuring the safety of lives and property.

Fayemi said that they were in Kaduna State to commiserate with the governor, the state government and the people of the state.

“We are here to show solidarity with them and align with the governor who as a public servant all his life, he has been a focused leader from who we must learn, to ensure peace in our communities,” Fayemi added.

The NGF chairman admonished El-Rufai not to relent in his efforts at building the state but ”continue to be the leader that he has always been, regardless of whatever anyone thinks. Nigeria is worth dying for.”