Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described FG’s claims linking the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) to Owo terror attack as mere speculation.
According to the Governor, no evidence has confirmed that the terrorists were responsible for the attack which claimed 40 lives and left several others injured.
“I am not going to go into any speculation,” the governor said on Monday while speaking on Channels .
“As far as I’m concerned, the statement that ISWAP or Boko Haram or whatever other institutions are responsible for this (attack) is purely speculative at this stage.
“ I haven’t seen any evidence that concretely puts this in the corner of any of these rogue elements that we have.
“And really it doesn’t – at this stage – matter, they have committed this crime, they have demonstrated the capacity to cause maximum damage to our people.”
Fayemi, who doubles as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF said Governors as the chief security officers of their states, are privy to all manners of intelligence but not all of them are actionable.
He explained that they have a responsibility to pass such intelligence to the relevant institutions who are expected to take necessary actions.
“I don’t want us to jump the gun as far as this is concerned and that is why I am not going to go into any detail as to what intelligence we had and at what point we had it,” said Governor Fayemi.
“Our duty as security officers is to ensure that this does not occur again and we go after elements of this nature, whichever organisation they may represent within our domains.”
