KADUNA: Govs are helpless to tackle insecurity, says El-Rufai

KADUNA State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed displeasure over the security challenges in the country and dissatisfied with the helplessness foisted on state governors by the Nigerian Constitution.

El-Rufai said nothing exposed the helplessness of the Nigerian governors in the face of security challenges than the recent #EndSARS protest, adding that calling governors Chief Security Officers of their state is a misnomer.

Speaking from Dubai on Channel’s ‘Politics Today’ on Monday, El-Rufai stated the reasons governors are incapacitated to fight insecurity in their various 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.

 “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.”