Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, said
in Lagos on Monday that Nigeria’s policing system had failed to tackle
insecurity.
Speaking on “Nigerian State and the Call for Restructuring’’
at the opening of Law Week 2021 of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar
Association (NBA) Ekweremadu reiterated his call for the decentralisation of
the police.
Ekweremadu said the decentralisation of the police had
become expedient in the face of the rising wave of banditry and kidnapping
across the country.
“Our policing system has failed woefully. There are no other
federating states that have done what we are doing in policing.
“It is no surprise that with the capsizing of the national
police, the nation’s security has also collapsed,’’ he said.
Ekweremadu said that restructuring the police was no longer
a matter of choice but a matter of urgency.
“In an instance where we have decentralised police, we will
have a federal police system and 774 police systems in all the 774 local
governments in the 36 states and in Abuja.
“The implication, therefore, is that if the federal police
fail, we have additional layers in 36 states; but right now, they are absent.
“Now that the federal policing have collapsed because they
do not have the resources, the funding and the manpower, there is nothing to
hold on to, Ekweremadu stressed.
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