Members of the Southern Governors’ Forum are currently meeting in Enugu, just about two months after they converged in Lagos State.
The Governors were received at the Government House, Enugu, by the host, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
While the agenda for the meeting have not been made public yet, the governors are expected to deliberate on the ongoing Value Added Tax (VAT) battle between states and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), open grazing and security issues.
Thursday’s meeting is coming just over two months after the governors met in Lagos State where they made a series of decisions including banning open grazing.
The governors had set September 5 as the deadline for states in southern Nigeria to promulgate the anti-open grazing law.
Although only seven states – Ebonyi, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo – beat the deadline, more states have enacted the law banning open grazing.
Enugu, Lagos, and Akwa Ibom were the latest states to enact the law against open grazing.
