Governors Not Using Security Votes To Fight Insecurity – Presidency

By Adesina Soyooye

The Presidency has, literally, accused State Governors of pocketing billions of Naira of Security Votes instead of using it for the purpose it is meant for – fighting insecurity.

The Presidency lamented that Governors, especially, of States with security challenges, instead of giving Security Agencies enough funds to fight Insecurity, pocket the funds and give to the Agencies, atimes, a paltry N20 million out of the billions of Naira they collect every month.

This disappointing disclosure was made by Daniel Bwala, Presidential Adviser on Policy Communications when he appeared on a Channels Television interview programme on Tuesday.

He lamented that the large security votes which run into billions of Naira notwithstanding, a number of the Governors give peanuts to the Military, Police, Department of State Services, DSS, as little as N20 million every month, an amount he said which hardly does much.

Bwala said it is the poor funding by Governors that help spread insecurity. According to him, if Governors use part of the money allocated to Security every month to buy modern equipment -drones, well equipped vehicles, the security situation would improve.