IG blames Governors, LG chairs for worsening insecurity

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has blamed State Governments and Local Governments chairmen for the worsening insecurity in the country.
Adamu stated this after a four-hour closed door meeting with the Senate on Wednesday.
Adamu, who said this while briefing newsmen after the closed door session, explained that if the state governments and local government chairmen have performed their responsibilities, the security situation will not be like this.
According to him: “There are other arms of government that needs to deal with it.
“State Governors, Local Government Chairmen should take up theirs responsibilities.
“People that are committing these crimes there are reasons that make them to commit these crimes.
“If it is lack of employment, if it is lack of education or those issues that will require intervention by the government, the state Governor should take responsibility.
“Local Government chairmen should take responsibility.
“Not that everything will be left to security agencies alone.”
Adamu said at the closed door session, the lawmakers were briefed about community policing, adding that the police will partner will various communities.
Adamu said: “I appeared before the Senate and briefed them on the concept of community policing.
“If you can remember, last year we sensitised the country on the need to adopt community policing in the country and the concept is to give policing back to the community, let the community take the initiative in identifying the problems that are there that can lead to the commission of crime and we work with the community to solve the crime.
“We believe that everybody comes from a community and the community is a community you know who and who is there.
“Taking policing back to the community will help in reducing crime to the barest minimum.
“So I have explained the concept of community policing to the Senate, which involves partnership with communities and there are various communities.
“You can have traditional institutions as a community.
“You can have the National Union of Road Transport Workers as a community.
“You can have the media as a community and various communities that you can have partnership with.
“If you are talking about partnership we are talking about problem solving.
“We need to solve problems that evolve in the community.
“What we mean here is that we scan the community to find out what are the indices that can lead to the commission of crime or a crime that has been committed already.
“We analyse the problems and then we look for solutions and the responses that are available then we deploy resources to deal with the problems and then subsequently we re-evaluate all our responses to see how we can adjust to solve the problem.
“And in doing this we need to build the capacity of our officers so as to key into the process.
“This is essentially what I explained to the Senate.”