Former Senate Deputy President, Ike
Ekweremadu, has said Nigeria may continue to contend with security issues if it
will not stop running a single central police system.
Ekweremadu, who spoke in Adamawa
State on Sunday, said the current federal police formation does not fit and
will not work with the federal system of government which the country
practices.
The former deputy Senate
President who fielded questions from newsmen on the side of a church
thanksgiving service he attended in the Bekaji area of Yola, stressed that
Nigeria needs to embrace systems which work in other parts of the world.
He said, “We must do what other
countries do so that we can get the result they get. The problem with our
security setup is that we forget we are running a federal system of government.
There is nowhere in the world where a federal government runs a unitary
police.”
He said the country needs a
federal police system which allows the various states, local government areas
and even corporations to own and run their own police units.
He added that Nigeria would then
establish a federal police service commission to monitor the federal police and
set standards for other police units to prevent such units from abusing their
powers.
He said the implication will be
that Nigeria will have at least 36 police units apart from the federal police
so that if a particular state has a security situation that its police cannot
handle, the state could get help from the police of one or two neighbouring
states.
“What is happening right now is
that the central police system that we run has collapsed. That’s why we bring
in soldiers to do the work of the police,” Sen Ekweremadu said.
The former Senate deputy
president was in Adamawa State to be part activities that a friend of his, Engr
Peter Aniobi, organised in celebration of the birth of a child.
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