FG, states to address border communities’ crises – Osinbajo

The Federal Government and state governments will now join forces in tackling the challenges in border communities across the country, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed yesterday.

“Our border communities are in a state of despair; we need to pay a lot of attention to them.”

He said this when he received the Senate Committee on States and Local Governments led by its Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Gumel and Chief Executives of Border Communities Development Agency and the National Boundary Commission at the State House in Abuja‎.

Osinbajo, however, observed that, “without the states, we will not be able to achieve much either with the border communities or the commission,” and offered to make presentation to the governors at the National Economic Council (NEC) in order to highlight the enormity of the challenges.

Both the Director General, National Boundary Commission, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed and Executive Secretary, Border Communities Development Agency, Engr, Numoipre Wills, attended the meeting.

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