A former senator representing Kaduna central district, Shehi Sani, has said that the governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, is one of the contributing factors to the security challenges in the state.
Sani, while speaking on Sunday, August 14, said El-Rufai’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari about the deteriorating security in the state was only an attempt to exonerate himself from the problem.
In the letter El-Rufai sent to President Buhari, he told the president that terrorists were forming a “permanent operational base” in the state.
The Kaduna state governor, in the letter, also claimed that the terrorists belonging to the Ansaru group are believed to have moved to Birnin Gwari region of the state in 2012.
Sani lamented the poor response and support by some of the governors in the North-west region for not providing adequate support using the available resource in their domain to support the security agencies in addressing the security situation in their respective states, Premium Times reports.
The former lawmaker said, unlike other states where governors support the security agencies with logistics, in Kaduna state, the gesture has not been noticed.
Sani said, “Governor El-Rufai has not done well in tackling the insecurity in Kaduna state, and no adequate support for the security agencies operating in the state, and some of the governor’s utterances have made the terrorists move into the state.
“The governor is not proactive to security in terms of support, the security situation could not have been to this level if the governor and his colleagues in the affected states use the available resources of their state to help the security agencies.
“Governor El-Rufai’s passive reaction to security issue is helping terrorists to thrive in Kaduna state.
“Although, there is a limit to what El-Rufai can say about the security situation, as a governor, he doesn’t have control of the Army, and the police, but he has the political leverage of access to them and supporting them.
“The government has failed over the years, and the success against the war on terror is very minimal.
“There was no successful operation to rescue the mass numbers of people in captivity, parents and relatives are left to pay the ransom to secure the release of their loved ones.
“When I was in the senate, I continuously raised a motion about the security situation in Kaduna state, but people like Governor El-Rufai portrayed me as someone undermining the development of the state and exaggerating the situation.
“There is nothing special about the letter written to the President by the governor.
“Kaduna state has been under the siege of bandits for many years.
“Right now, it’s the hub of many terrorists’ groups, and kidnappers.
“The terrorists have certainly established their government, putting structures in place, appointing leaders, collecting taxes, establishing the court, settling disputes and providing security to villagers.
“I have to say that Governor El-Rufai is a contributing factor to the deterioration of the security in Kaduna state, because, over the years, he failed to tell the president the true situations in the state,” he added.
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