“Two Southwest Governors came to me to say cattle rearers are destroying farms in their states, I asked them what happened to the grassroot security panels from traditional rulers to Local Governments who meet regularly to identify the root of their problems and identify crooks within their environment and apprehend the criminals. Who destroyed this system?
Go back and fix it, give your people sense of belonging. I don’t like it when people campaign to become Governors and people trusted them with their votes and after winning, they can’t perform, they’re trying to push responsibilities to others…. We have three tiers of Government, Federal, State and Local.
We have killed the Local Government totally. We will send N300m as allocation to a Local Government, one Governor will ask the Local Government Chairman to sign that he collected N300m but he will give him N100m and the Chairman will keep quiet… Is that how we will continue?”
— President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR
10th June, 2021.
