Former local government council chairmen in Edo State have called on the Federal Government to allocate 20 per cent of Nigeria’s defence budget directly to local governments, arguing that grassroots communities should play a central role in tackling the country’s worsening insecurity.
The demand was contained in the LG Charter on Insecurity 2026: A Demand for Direct Grassroots Action, adopted after a strategic meeting of the Edo State Group of Local Government Council Chairmen (2018–2021) in Benin City made available to our correspondent on Friday.
In a communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Communiqué Drafting Committee and former Chairman of Esan North East Local Government Area, Austine Okoibhole, alongside former Chairman of Uhunmwode Local Government Council, Napoleon Agbama, and former Chairman of Etsako Central Local Government Council, John Akhigbe, the former council bosses argued that local governments should become the frontline of Nigeria’s security architecture.
They said the proposed
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