The Executive Governor of Ekiti State & Chairman, NGF, Kayode Fayemi
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja –
The 12th teleconference of the 36 state Governors since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, with the second corruption survey, their policy patterns and trends at the sub-national level as analysed by the National Bureau for Statistics and the UNODC slated as one of the presentations .
To review the trend, a representative of the UNODC Oliver Stolpe and the Statistician General, Dr Yemi Kale will join governors in the teleconference to shed light on the subject. The implementation of the 5% user’s charge by FERMA will also be presented to the governors by the FERMA boss as two of the three presentations for tomorrow’s meeting.
Head, Media and Public Affairs, Nigeria Governors’ Forum Secretariat, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday, said the meeting would commence at 2 pm and that Governors were expected to start joining the meeting from 1 pm.
He said that before the two items above, the National Gas Expansion Program NGEP will be tabled before the governors by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipriye Sylva. The rubric will revolve around “Expanding Domestic Gas Supply & Stimulating Demand in the Country,” soon after the opening remarks by the Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr John Kayode Fayemi.
“An invitation from the Director-General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum Mr Asishana Bayo Okauru to the governors lists the issues to be discussed at the meeting including an update from the Governor of Delta State Dr Ifeanyi Okowa and his committee’s interface with the Presidential Task Force, on Covid19, and its new emphasis on community spread, particularly regarding how best to mitigate the development, Belo-Barkindo said.
“The governors will also discuss the Executive Order 10, 2020 – Financial Autonomy for the Legislature & Judiciary of States among other matters, apart from taking a critical look at the nation’s economic sustainability, post Covid19, giving special attention to the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA); a Compendium of State-Owned Moribund Companies & Commercial Entities; the Infrastructure Refund to the remaining Five (5) States – RV; BY; CRS; ON; OS which is still ongoing,” he added.