Strike: FG places govs under security watch

SECURITY agencies in the country are said to have uncovered arrangements by which some state governors stoke the ongoing protests by the organised labour, even after the governors and the federal authorities have collectively agreed to back deregulation of the oil sector.
Sources confirmed that the Federal Government would soon confront the culprit governors with details of their activities, which is seen as threatening national security, especially on a policy that has been agreed on with the governors.
Information at the disposal of Nigerian Tribune indicated that reports compiled by security agencies in the last one week confirmed that some governors only returned to their states to stoke the embers of discord between labour and the government.
A source confirmed that what some of the governors had done amounted to betrayal of the Federal Government’s policy and “bad politics.”
A source said that while many of the governors so indicted wanted to be seen as being on the side of the people in the subsidy debate, they, however, supported the policy during debates in Abuja.
“What has been discovered is that some governors, while playing to the gallery, and in trying to satisfy the feelings of their godfathers, returned to their states after meetings of the National Economic Council (NEC) to sponsor protesters against fuel subsidy removal.
“There is the case of a state which provided funds for T-shirts and other logistics. A particular godfather actually reached out to some of the governors instigating them that he was unhappy about the silence from their states after the removal of fuel subsidy on January 1,” a source said.
Other sources also stated that the government had noted with displeasure the decision to play politics with the life of the nation in respect of the sensitive issue of subsidy removal.
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