Insecurity: Obasanjo Joins Advocacy for State Police
POLITICS DIGEST- Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the institution of state to tackle the growing insecurity in the country.
Obasanjo said the creation of state police would be a better option than community policing.
The Special Assistant to Obasanjo on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi in a statement quoted the former president as saying this when the leadership of the National Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
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“Our situation in Nigeria concerns everyone, particularly, the case of terrorism. The case has gotten over the issue of community police. It is now state police. It is from that state police that we can now be talking about community police.
“I prepared a document during the popular Murtala/Obasanjo administration, because I believe that there is a need to enable that tier of government to work truly as a local government. They have their own Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.
“They were working and they were very visible, building and managing roads, looking into education, health, local administration, agriculture, but they are all gone,” he said
Obasanjo, who was presented with a letter requesting him to be their life patron, assured them that he would look into their request.
Speaking on the initiative, Obasanjo who commended the people behind the formation of the body, said the development clearly showed that some local chairmen in the country were better than even the top elected leaders.