Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau, says there are limits to
what state governors can do about insecurity in the country.
He lamented that governors don’t have full authority over
the security operatives in their states.
Lalong spoke on Friday during the Good Morning Nigeria
programme on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).
He said even though the constitution makes the governors the
chief security officers of their states, there is a limit to the orders they
can give security personnel.
Lalong called on the national assembly to intervene, adding
that the federal lawmakers have a role to play in ensuring that governors are
empowered to tackle insecurity.
“We have also cried and said the constitution provides that
we (the governors) are chief security officers in our state,” he said.
“But there are limits to what we can do, the command that we
do. If I am the general officer commanding, I should be the general officer
commanding. Not the general officer that will command, and the person you
command will say I need to get command from somewhere. All these are very
important.”
Lalong said it is time for the federal government to address
security issues and to implement all the security reports that have been
drafted and submitted.
“We can’t be talking unless we address these issues. Let us
be addressing these issues, not only talk-shop, because by the time we continue
to talk without coming back to implement, we will still be talking of the same
issue,” he added.
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