Give Us State Police, Resource Control Now, El Rufai Tells FG

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has called on the Federal Government to immediately implement three specific recommendations of the All Progressives Congress Committee on True Federalism to address the insecurity in the country. El-Rufai, who was one of the speakers on a live broadcast tagged “The Fierce Urgency of Now, Tactics and Strategies to Pull Nigeria from the Brink,’ on Friday, stated that Nigeria had failed “jealously and consistently protect its prerogatives and status as a leviathan, the ultimate guarantor of security, the protector of rights and the promoter of the rule of law.” According to him, that is why the Federal Government’s power is being challenged in a “frightening sustained manner” by a phalanx of armed non state actors.

He said, “I would recommend the following immediate decisions and actions by the federal and state governments, with the support of our civil society and all well meaning Nigerians. The first is to implement the three key devolution proposals that i mentioned, Give us state police now, vest all minerals in the states now, and decentralise our judiciary now, not later. The governor noted that only the National Assembly could make state police a reality. El-Rufai added, “There is nothing the governors can do. And these Senators and House of Representatives members were elected from states. Many of them get elected with our help and support, but when they go to Abuja, they can grow large heads and will not cut their hair for two years, and they start thinking something else. I had one like that, i got him out.”