PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM Protracted insecurity across regions and states readily calls out the governors that oversee jurisdiction where crimes and criminals now freely interface. Amid the validity of blaming the centre for things that go wrong in local communities, the insecurity has dragged on for too long to render a formidable local and regional intervention an afterthought. Recent interventions by local security groups against kidnappers and bandits are reassuring. It is high time governors double-up and fully throw weights behind local and regional security outfits, as chief executives that understand the demands of the office. Clearly, the Federal Government has no magic wand to keep Nigerians secured despite its central control of the Armed Forces and the Nigeria Police. Daily death toll from terrorism, banditry, kidnappings, farmers-herders’ clashes, armed robberies and uprisings attest to a country fast spinning out of control. State governors that as well share the constitutional duty of security of lives and properties in their domain had earlier seen the wisdom of self-protection and self-help through indigenous security outfits. Such exigencies typical of hands-on leadership have created organised local vigilante groups, and state-own outfits like Hisbah in Kano and Neighbourhood Watch in Lagos. In the Northeast is the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in the fight against Boko Haram. About a year ago, the Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Operation Amotekun, was formed in the Southwest. Eastern Security Network (ESN), suspected to be created by the proscribed (IPOB), followed in the East and recently, Ebube Agu got the belated endorsement of Southeast governors.