Nigeria Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will be heading a committee that has six state governors as members to engage youths, representatives of Civil Society Organisations, religious and traditional leaders on the fallout of the recent #EndSARS protests.
Members of the committee will be engaging the stakeholders on Employment, social safety net programmes, and national unity among other key issues of concern that will be discussed.
As reported by PUNCH that the decision was reached at an emergency meeting of the National Economic Council chaired by Vice President Osinbajo on Monday. Read More
The statement read,
“Council agreed to embark on an objective framing of a new security and stability architecture for the country supported by the development of a framework of engagement with the youth, civil society and religious leaders; a framework for national unity; a framework to engage with security agencies that will devolve more control to state governors who are the chief security officers of their states; a framework for federal support to provide compensation for those who have incurred losses in the last few weeks and a framework for social security to deal with the problem of unemployment and poverty in the country.
“A joint committee was consequently set up by the Chairman of Council, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, to work with state governments represented by the governors of Ebonyi, Ondo, Niger, Delta, Borno and the Sokoto States to implement the resolutions of the emergency meeting.”
The council also commended the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies for their handling of the disturbances in some states.
The council also commended the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies for their handling of the disturbances in some states.
