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*Security: Kwara South LGs Shutdown all Kara markets*Sequel to the prevailing security realities in Kwara South Senatori...
19/09/2025

*Security: Kwara South LGs Shutdown all Kara markets*

Sequel to the prevailing security realities in Kwara South Senatorial District, we the Council local government Chairmen, under the aegis of the Forum of Seven Local Government Chairmen in Kwara South Senatorial District, have ordered the immediate closure of all Kara (cattle) markets within the District.

This painful but necessary decision was arrived at after an extensive stakeholders engagement and reviews.

While the invading criminals have been operationally decimated in the last few weeks, clean up operations by the military and hybrid operatives are still ongoing.

Therefore, all Kara markets have been ordered to shut down with immediate effect from Friday , September 19, 2025, until further notice. All other produce markets are hereby directed to close by 6:00 pm on market days.

This decision, taken collectively by the Executive Chairmen, is part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen the security architecture of the Senatorial District and protect lives and properties.

This measure is a proactive step, aimed at addressing emerging security concerns and ensuring the safety of residents, traders, and commuters within District.

The decision will be reviewed periodically, and the markets would be reopened once a conductive environment is guaranteed.

While we acknowledge and regret the economic impact of this decision on our people, we've chosen to prioritise the safety of lives and properties and adhering to long-term coordinated and structured security advisement over and above short-term inconveniences.

However, we use this opportunity to reassure residents and indigenes of Kwara South, that the local government councils in conjunction with the State government and relevant security agencies are doing everything within its powers to restore a lasting peace to the land.

We therefore, enjoin all and sundry, to be corporative with governmental efforts and security operatives towards collaboratively guaranteeing the return of lasting peace to our land.

Singed:

Executive Chairman, Ifelodun Local Government Area, Hadji Abdulrasheed Femi Yusuf

Executive Chairman, Isin Local Government Area, Hon. Benjamin Lanre Jolayemi

Executive Chairman, Irepodun Local Government Area, Hon. Azeez Yakub

Executive Chairman, Ekiti Local Government Area, Hon. Awelewa Olawale Gabriel

Executive Chairman, Oke-Ero Local Government Area, Hon. James Fadipe

Executive Chairman, Offa Local Government Area, Hon. Sulyman Olatunji

Executive Chairman, Oyun Local Government Area, Hon. Akanbi Kamar Olarewaju

17/09/2025

STATEHOUSE STATEMENT

STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY, BOLA AHMED TINUBU, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, ON THE CESSATION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RIVERS STATE

My Fellow countrymen and, in particular, the good people of Rivers State.

I am happy to address you today on the state of emergency declaration in Rivers State. You will recall that on 18th March, 2025, I proclaimed a state of emergency in the state. In my proclamation address, I highlighted the reasons for the declaration. The summary of it for context is that there was a total paralysis of governance in Rivers State, which had led to the Governor of Rivers State and the House of Assembly being unable to work together. Critical economic assets of the State, including oil pipelines, were being vandalised. The State House of Assembly was crisis-ridden, such that members of the House were divided into two groups. Four members worked with the Governor, while 27 members opposed the Governor. The latter group supported the Speaker. As a result, the Governor could not present any Appropriation Bill to the House, to enable him to access funds to run Rivers State's affairs. That serious constitutional impasse brought governance in the State to a standstill. Even the Supreme Court, in one of its judgments in a series of cases filed by the Executive and the Legislative arms of Rivers State against each other, held that there was no government in Rivers State. My intervention and that of other well-meaning Nigerians to resolve the conflict proved abortive as both sides stuck rigidly to their positions to the detriment of peace and development of the State.

It therefore became painfully inevitable that to arrest the drift towards anarchy in Rivers State, I was obligated to invoke the powers conferred on me by Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, to proclaim the state of emergency. The Offices of the Governor, Deputy Governor, and elected members of the State House of Assembly were suspended for six months in the first instance. The six months expire today, September 17th, 2025.

I thank the National Assembly, which, after critically evaluating the justification for the proclamation, took steps immediately, as required by the Constitution, to approve the declaration in the interest of peace and order in Rivers State. I also thank our traditional rulers and the good people of Rivers State for their support from the date of the declaration of the state of emergency until now.

I am not unaware that there were a few voices of dissent against the proclamation, which led to their instituting over 40 cases in the courts in Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Yenagoa, to invalidate the declaration. That is the way it should be in a democratic setting. Some cases are still pending in the courts as of today. But what needs to be said is that the power to declare a state of emergency is an inbuilt constitutional tool to address situations of actual or threatened breakdown of public order and public safety, which require extraordinary measures to return the State to peace, order and security. Considered objectively, we had reached that situation of total breakdown of public order and public safety in Rivers State, as shown in the judgment of the Supreme Court on the disputes between the Executive and the Legislative arm of Rivers State. It would have been a colossal failure on my part as President not to have made that proclamation.

As a stakeholder in democratic governance, I believe that the need for a harmonious existence and relationship between the executive and the legislature is key to a successful government, whether at the state or national level. The people who voted us into power expect to reap the fruits of democracy. However, that expectation will remain unrealizable in an atmosphere of violence, anarchy, and insecurity borne by misguided political activism and Machiavellian manipulations among the stakeholders.

I am happy today that, from the intelligence available to me, there is a groundswell of a new spirit of understanding, a robust readiness, and potent enthusiasm on the part of all the stakeholders in Rivers State for an immediate return to democratic governance. This is undoubtedly a welcome development for me and a remarkable achievement for us. I therefore do not see why the state of emergency should exist a day longer than the six months I had pronounced at the beginning of it.

It therefore gives me great pleasure to declare that the emergency in Rivers State of Nigeria shall end with effect from midnight today. The Governor, His Excellency Siminalayi Fubara, the deputy governor, Her Excellency Ngozi Nma Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the speaker, Martins Amaewhule, will resume work in their offices from 18 September 2025.

I take this opportunity to remind the Governors and the Houses of Assembly of all the States of our country to continue to appreciate that it is only in an atmosphere of peace, order, and good government that we can deliver the dividends of democracy to our people. I implore all of you to let this realisation drive your actions at all times.

I thank you all.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

17/09/2025

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