Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has warned that arming state security outfits was not enough to end insecurity in the country, as according to him, doing so would amount to a simplistic approach to combatting “sophisticated” non-state actors that sometimes ”outgun the military.”
The governor spoke shortly before his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, issued a one-month ultimatum to the Federal Government to grant the state’s Community Volunteer Guards a license to bear AK-47s.
Ortom, who also said that the federal and state governments were currently working to achieve state policing, however, explained that Benue people would have the final say if the Federal Government failed to grant the request for an arms licence.
