Insecurity: We Aren’t Getting Enough Support From Governors, Says IGP

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has accused
state governments of not giving enough support to the efforts of
the Federal Government to tackle insecurity.

Mohammed spoke at the 2021 first quarterly meeting of
Secretaries to State Governments of the 36 states and the FCT with
the theme: ‘The role of Secretaries to the State Governments in
strengthening sub-national level security architecture’.

He said the Federal Government has developed strategies to deal
with some of the challenges and the support of state governments
was necessary in order to achieve the desired results.

“At the federal level, we have developed a lot of strategies
towards mitigating these issues but we don’t get the maximum
cooperation that we supposed to get at the state level.

“We believe that secretaries to state governments should be
conscious of security in their states because when they are able to
galvanise all the stakeholders and different structures that are
there that can enhance the security of their states, we will have
relative peace in terms of insecurity.

“But if SSGs are not coordinating activities within the states,
I don’t think anybody can do it,” he said.

But representatives of the state governments at the programme
disagreed with Adamu.

Nigeria is currently experiencing a high level of insecurity and
efforts made to bring the situation under control have not yielded
the desired result.

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has accused
state governments of not giving enough support to the efforts of
the Federal Government to tackle insecurity.

Mohammed spoke at the 2021 first quarterly meeting of
Secretaries to State Governments of the 36 states and the FCT with
the theme: ‘The role of Secretaries to the State Governments in
strengthening sub-national level security architecture’.

He said the Federal Government has developed strategies to deal
with some of the challenges and the support of state governments
was necessary in order to achieve the desired results.

“At the federal level, we have developed a lot of strategies
towards mitigating these issues but we don’t get the maximum
cooperation that we supposed to get at the state level.

“We believe that secretaries to state governments should be
conscious of security in their states because when they are able to
galvanise all the stakeholders and different structures that are
there that can enhance the security of their states, we will have
relative peace in terms of insecurity.

“But if SSGs are not coordinating activities within the states,
I don’t think anybody can do it,” he said.

But representatives of the state governments at the programme
disagreed with Adamu.

Nigeria is currently experiencing a high level of insecurity and
efforts made to bring the situation under control have not yielded
the desired result.