KILLINGS: Being Chief Security Officer is mere name, I can’t save my people -Gov Yari

Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari on Friday regretted his incapacity to take actions to curtail killings of citizens of the state despite being the Chief Security Officer of the people.

He described the position of Nigerian governors as chief security officers of their states as a mere nomenclature and bemoaned the fact that he cannot even take decisions on strategies for protecting the state and its people and had it implemented.

The governor said this when he addressed newsmen in Talata-Mafara, nothing that he had dropped his responsibility as Chief Security Officer of the state.

He said, “We have been facing serious security challenges over the years, but in spite of being governor and Chief Security Officer of the state, I cannot direct security officers on what to do nor sanction them when they err.

“As Chief Security Officer, the nomenclature in just a name.”

Governor Yari also described as painful the situation where killings had continued unabated in the state despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s order to security agencies to end the incessant killings across the country

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Lamenting that killings had continued in the state regardless of the order, Yari said that the state government has been spending huge amount of its resources on security but to no avail.

He then called on Zamfara citizens to be more faithful to God and embark on special prayers over the challenges facing the state.

He added, “We cannot keep quiet while our people are being killed daily. We are going to cooperate with all stakeholders to bring the situation to an end.”

 

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