{"id":33614,"date":"2021-05-14T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=33614"},"modified":"2021-05-14T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T12:07:20","slug":"lalong-governors-have-limited-power-to-tackle-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/14\/lalong-governors-have-limited-power-to-tackle-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalong: Governors have limited power to tackle insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong has stated that there are limits to what state governors can do about insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by Lalong while speaking on Friday during the Good Morning Nigeria programme on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).<\/p>\n<p>Lalong\u00a0lamented that governors don\u2019t have full authority over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/13\/insecurity-fg-to-prosecute-400-suspected-boko-haram-financiers-malami\/\">security<\/a> operatives in their states.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also cried and said the constitution provides that we (the governors) are chief security officers in our state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong has stated that there are limits to what state governors can do about insecurity in the country. This was stated by Lalong while speaking on Friday during the Good Morning Nigeria programme on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). 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