Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai warned yesterday that arming state security outfits was not enough to end insecurity in the country.

To El-Rufai, doing so would amount to a simplistic approach to combating “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.

Akeredolu had on September 22 notified the Federal Government of his intention to procure arms for operatives of Amotekun. He had argued that it was not only legal but it was his duty as a governor to protect Ondo residents from marauders.

But featuring on Channel’s Sunrise Daily, El-Rufai, said: ”People are speaking simplistically when they say ‘I want to get an AK-47 for my Amotekun. You don’t know what you’re dealing with.

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“Local security networks can only provide local intelligence. They do not have the firearms to face these guys [bandits].

”These guys sometimes even rout the military. They are very well-armed. They are getting arms that are sophisticated. Sometimes, they outgun the military. Those vigilantes are not up to scratch.”

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The governor, who is known to have openly canvassed carpet bombing of terrorists and bandits’ camps as a way to contain non-state actors, said there have been positive changes in the security of his state in the past six weeks.

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