The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union has said that saboteurs in the government were frustrating the efforts made by the federal and state governments towards tackling the security challenges in the country.

The group, while lamenting the spate of kidnapping and killings in the state, said the situation appeared as though the government lacked control or was no longer capable of dealing with the circumstances.

Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, SOKAPU President, Samuel Tabara, expressed the need for the government to consider a people-oriented constitution and the creation of state police, as solutions to the security problem.

He added that while the government was trying to restore normalcy and sanity, some people outside the government decided to sabotage it by sponsoring crimes.

Tabara said though the sponsors might represent an interest group, he described them as unpatriotic citizens, who meant “no well to anybody except for their own selfish reasons.”

He said, “My view on this is the fact that there are people outside government who are sponsoring these criminalities. While the government tries to see that they restore normalcy and bring about sanity, they (saboteurs) do everything to circumvent it.

“They may claim to be representing one interest group or the other, but in actual fact, these are all unpatriotic citizens who mean no well to anybody except for their selfish reasons.

“First and foremost, we need state police. The federal police have proven inadequate. We need state police, not just state police; we need police up to the local government level.” (Saturday PUNCH)