The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Thursday averred that the state governments are not supporting the Federal Government’s efforts to tackle security challenges in Nigeria.
He noted that the Federal Government had developed strategies to deal with some of the challenges but only needs the support of state governments in order to achieve the desired results.
Adamu advocates “community participation” through the involvement of traditional rulers to secure the country from all forms of criminality.
According to him, security should not be left entirely in the hands of security agents.
Mohammed spoke at the 2021 first quarterly meeting of Secretaries to State Governments of the 36 states and the FCT in Abuja with the theme: ‘The role of Secretaries to the State Governments in strengthening sub-national level security architecture’.
The police boss said, “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.”
Representatives of the SSGs, however, disagreed with Adamu on his submission, instead they accused the police of not responding on time to crime alert.