Governors cannot direct police, DSS, military without federal approval – Makinde

The statesmanlike campaigner of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said governors deficiency the law powers to contented operational directives to information agencies, arguing that their relation successful addressing insecurity is mostly constricted contempt being designated arsenic main information officers of their states.

Makinde stated this on Friday while speaking with journalists soon aft a closed-door gathering with Bauchi State Governor and APM person successful the state, Bala Mohammed, astatine the Government House, Bauchi.

The Oyo politician said authorities governors could neither nonstop the police, the Department of State Services (DSS) nor the subject without support from their respective nationalist authorities, stressing wherefore authorities policing is the close call.

“I cannot springiness an acquisition to the Commissioner of Police successful the state. He volition request to get support from the Inspector-General of Police. I cannot springiness an acquisition to the authorities manager of security. He volition request to get clearance from the Director-General of the DSS. The aforesaid applies to the subject and different information agencies liable for handling insecurity,” helium said.

Makinde said portion governors could enforce curfews during information emergencies, specified decisions indispensable beryllium balanced against their economical consequences.

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