The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS on Monday said the resolve by Southwest governors to establish a joint security network and food hubs to address insecurity and hunger respectively, would enhance regional growth and development.

Ekwutosblog reports that the governors at a meeting held in last week in Lagos decided to establish a combined security network and food centres hubs in the region, in an effort to promote the socioeconomic growth of the southwest.

The Governors of the six South-West states- Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo and Ondo, also announced that they would work together to make sure the Southwest Development Commission could effectively promote coordinated regional development.

Responding to this, the student body in a statement signed by the NANS Ogun JCC chairman, Gabriel Francis, in Abeokuta, described the resolution by the Southwest Governors Forum as laudable.

Francis said the governors took the right decision to collaborate on key issues such as insecurity and hunger, noting that such a regional cooperation would go a long way in boosting economic prosperity in the southwest.

He stated that the governors decision pertaining to insecurity, could not have come at a better time than when insurgents and terrorists are suspected of flooding to the southwest.

According to the NANS chairman, if the governors cooperate and work together on the issues that support the region’s development, the southwest would restore its prestigious status in the nation.

Meanwhile, he maintained that aside issues of insecurity and hunger, the Southwest Governors Forum should expand their cooperation to transportation, joint trade fair, youth development programmes, industrial, ICT and other socioeconomic development activities.

While urging the governors to make sure they implement the commendable resolutions, Gabriel also asked them to start working by setting up various committees to create a work plan for ensuring their resolutions function as intended.