Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate
president, has spoken on his kidnap ordeal.
Ekweremadu warned that if the
country continues to practice the federal police system it is operating, there
will be a serious problem.
“I was once taken by armed
robbers or kidnappers if you like. They took me for like two days”, he told
Thisday.
“I saw the deficiencies of our
police, because we passed several checkpoints. The type of policing we have is
not sustainable and it is not good for the type of our structure.
”So, we need to find the type
of police that can suit our purpose. If we do that, we will be able to secure
the people and their properties.
“Remember that the constitution
says that the primary purpose of government is the security and welfare of the
people.
”The first thing we need to do
is to make sure we are secured, even if you don’t provide them with jobs they
can look for their own job. But if you provide jobs and then you don’t provide
security, then nobody goes out for the job.
“So, if you have a multi-ethnic
society, the usual recommendation is to run a federal system for which
decentralised policing, not just the state police, decentralised policing goes
beyond just having police at the state level.
”You may have to have police at
the local government level, in some critical institutions like the universities
and the national assembly.
“The important thing is how we
coordinate it, to make sure that nobody is abusing it, that it is well
coordinated, that there is a database where everybody keys in.
”This is what we should be
talking about, but if we continue to do what we are doing, we are going to run
into problem.”
He said state police “is the best
way to go” but that it’s pertinent to come up with measures so that it would not
be abused.
“Our colleagues in the national
assembly said the governors will use it against them and stuff like that.
”Sometime some of them will
move from being a member of the national assembly and become governors so when
they become governors they become champions of state police, because it is
convenient for them.
“We therefore need to find a way
to make everybody understand that it is not about the temporary gains we have
today.”
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