Insecurity: “We Are Almost Helpless”, Says El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has expressed worry over the rising spate of insecurity and the constitutional constraints of state governors in the area of state security.

The Governor while speaking in an interview on Channels Television, said that the recent #EndSARS protest by youths against police brutality in parts of the country exposed the inability of the governors to tackle insecurity despite being called the Chief Security Officers of their states.

“We are all frustrated. I am frustrated in my state, many governors are frustrated in their states; we are called chief security officers only in name, we have no control over cohesive instruments of the state,” El-Rufai said.

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“We are almost helpless. The #EndSARS protest clearly showed the limit to the control of governors over the police and the military.

“Some of us have more influence than others, but to a large extent, you ask the commissioner of police to do something and he has to clear with the Inspector-General of Police; this is the reality.

“We are not in control of the police, I don’t determine who gets posted to my state as CP and if I give him directives, he can decide to flout the directives. So, we are all frustrated,” he added.