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State Police: Delay is Dangerous; National Assembly’s Actions Are Mere Shenanigans

By Polycarp Onwubiko

Daily Independent Editorial said:

"It is regrettable that successive governments refused to heed the call for the establishment of state police. In several editorials spanning two decades, this medium harped on the need for police decentralisation, not just to contain the burgeoning insecurity but as a key feature of federalism...

"Of course, it goes without saying that law enforcement officers will be exceptionally effective in combating crime when they work among their own people and in their own terrain or local environment....

"How could one Inspector-How could one Inspector-General of Police from Abuja, even if he were super human, determine the security architecture for every village and hamlet in a vast territory with over 250 ethnic nationalities, having disparate backgrounds, languages and cultures?

"The clamour for state police attained deafening decibels in recent years. It equally generated considerable controversy. Despite the worsening insecurity, every Nigerian President opposed it for largely indecipherable reasons, if not entirely the desire to retain the monopoly of an instrument of force at the federal level....

"Now the chickens have come home to roost. Insecurity, exacerbated by the actions and inactions of the Buhari administration, has attained monstrous proportions now about to asphyxiate the entire country....

 

"We recall that at least three state governors during the last administration, frustrated by the lack of capacity of the Nigerian state to secure lives and property, called on their citizens to defend themselves against the callous, marauding insurgents, gun-toting herdsmen, kidnappers, terrorists and bandits – a euphemism for a call to arms".

My comment:

The National Assembly is reported to be deliberating on the possibility of having State Police (Decentralized security architecture) since July 2923. For how long will it take the National Legislature and the Executive arm of Government to complete action on this very important matter?

Don't mind them, the purported owners of Nigeria, will definitely truncate the move because it would truncate their dream Islamization agenda. Immediately State Police comes into force, state governments especially in the middle belt states down south will put an instant halt to the primitive way of cattle rearing known as "Open Grazing". It is only in a primitive, uncivilized country like Nigeria that this primitive, indecent and disease-prone mode of animal husbandry is observed.

It is a deliberate plan by the military jackboots in Nigeria, which allegedly sponsored  the useless , so-called "ECOWAS protocol free movement across West African countries",  which is applicable only in Nigeria because other West African countries insist on Immigration protocols mainly Passport and Visa for gaining entry into their country because it is integral to security of the country.

What the National Assembly is doing on state police is mere shenanigans. President Tinubu should be seen to be serious about the pervasive and intractable insecurity throughout the country when he would shun the breathing down by the "Fulani Feudal Oligarchy" who stridently kicked against Restructuring the lopsided Federation with decentralized security architecture as integral part, and set up Constituent Assembly of selected representatives of ethnic nationalities to brainstorm and fashion PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION similar to the harmless 1960/1963 Federal Constitution which the military SUSPENDED, not abolished. That realistic Federal Constitution ought to have been reinstated or restored because the then Regional Governments were progressing with the principles of federal system of government embedded in the Republican Constitution.

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