Weaponising Insecurity: Interrogating Marafa’s two-year promise in Zamfara, By Isha Ibrahim Maihula

A categorical commitment to eliminate insecurity within two years raises fundamental questions about his understanding of the constitutional powers of a governor, the regional nature of the crisis and the nature of federal security agencies whose operational cooperation is indispensable.

That clarification seriously matters because while a state governor can provide financial resources, intelligence, and other logistics support within the limits of the law, and can work with federal security agencies, he cannot simply order the Army or Air Force into battle.

This distinction is particularly important in Zamfara State, where the scale and nature of the security challenge require sustained military operations alongside police deployments, intelligence coordination and other federal interventions.