{"id":1311,"date":"2020-02-12T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2020-02-12T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:35:14","slug":"state-governments-face-pressure-to-respond-to-national-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/state-governments-face-pressure-to-respond-to-national-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"State Governments face Pressure to respond to National Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governments across the 36 States of the Federation of Nigeria are coming under increasing pressure from their citizens to make alternative security arrangements to protect the people. This follows the evident failure of the nation\u2019s military and security services to protect citizens against the worst levels of insecurity, banditry, kidnappings and other serious crimes that this country has ever witnessed. In response, States are banding into regional security arrangements to protect their people. South West States of the country have already established what they call <em>Amotekun, <\/em>while South East Governors have now met to follow up on their earlier resolution to create a regional security force. Also, Governors of the South South States are in discussions on the matter. Stretching this was a group of northern youths who have announced the creation of what they call <em>Shege Ka Fasa<\/em>, to protect the Northern States. However, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa\u2019ad Abubakar and the Northern States Governors\u2019 Forum have dissociated themselves from the said group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The level of insecurity nationwide has become so\nfrightening that it has become the most discussed issue in the country. It will\nbe recalled that the House of Representatives had in a resolution called for\nthe sack of military chiefs for their incompetence in handling the country\u2019s\nsecurity. Few days ago, 10 persons were killed in Auno village in Borno State,\n18 vehicles destroyed, and several communities razed to the ground by Boko Haram\ninsurgents. Before that, a Catholic seminarian, Michael Nnadi was killed by\nkidnappers in Kaduna after his other colleagues were freed. Also, in the same\nKaduna State, the wife of a medical doctor who was kidnapped with her two\nchildren was killed by the kidnappers. It would seem that Nigeria has been\novertaken by serious and unrestrained bandits. Sadly, the nation\u2019s leadership\nappears gripped by unprecedented incompetence in the handling of security\nmatters. The President has ignored several calls to sack the leadership of the\nmilitary and security agencies. The latest call for the sack of security chiefs\nis by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria. Nigerians are at a loss\nunderstanding why the President has ignored these calls, especially as all the\nmilitary service chiefs have overstayed their tenures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments across the 36 States of the Federation of Nigeria are coming under increasing pressure from their citizens to make alternative security arrangements to protect the people. This follows the evident failure of the nation\u2019s military and security services to protect citizens against the worst levels of insecurity, banditry, kidnappings and other serious crimes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-governments-face-pressure-to-respond-to-national-insecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}