By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa – Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, representing Bayelsa West senatorial district, has warned that the country may be heading towards disintegration, should the Federal Government fail to take advantage of the proposed constitutional amendment to enthrone fiscal federalism.

Senator Lokpobiri, who spoke in Yenagoa, said the battle to rid the country of the ‘Boko Haram’ sect’s campaign of terror may turn out to be a mirage without identifying its political and religious head.

He said every state of the federation has one form of resource or the other to survive, adding that Nigeria needed to take advantage of the planned constitutional amendment to enthrone fiscal federalism to avert possible break up of the country.

He said: “We need to restructure this country along fiscal federalism. I have always contended, even on the floor of the Senate, that the reason why we are bedeviled with the kind of problems we have today is because we had deviated from the structure of governance agreed upon, based on several conferences that were held before independence.”