Nigeria not mature enough for state police- Asemota
Public affair analyst Arch. Asemota O Asemota has faulted the propose creation of state police. He said creation of state police with do more harm to our already porous security system.
Asemota make this remark in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Thursday.
He said " with the recent security challenges in the country, couple with series of attacks across Nigeria especially our rural areas, many security analyst has come out to propose state policing as the probably solutions but I disagree with this. Nigeria as a country is not mature enough for state police, from administration to implementation.
How do we entrust the administration of a security of a state in the hands of a governor who has not been able to pay civil servants salaries for good 8months and expect proper policing and good discharge of duties? He added
He went further to say "the major challenge that confronts Nigeria as a nation on the implementation of state police is what I would want to call the secret motive or agenda by the state governors who would be charged with the duty of financing this apparatus. History and recent events and utterances have shown that the current crop of politicians we have at the helm if affairs in Nigeria would stop at nothing in manipulating and using this state police in vendetta mission, oppression, intimidation and all sorts of social vices, especially during electioneering periods".
Take the happenings in Ekiti state as a case study, we've seen state governors and ministers who have affiliations to the powers at the center, boast of taming,caging and degrading opposition parties because they feel they have the security architecture at their beck and call. We've even seen a sitting governor come out to accuse the police force of beating him up. This is unheard of in the history of democracy in Nigeria. So as you can see, judging from experience, the call for state policing might seem tempting when you confront it with the current security challenges in the country. But on the contrary, the thought of the extent to which they'll be used and manipulated against even the common citizens perceived to be against the policies of the state government is better left unsaid. The aftermath or should I say adverse effect of state policing is too great a risk for Nigeria to embark on,especially at the very fragile stage of our democracy where politicians no longer see the masses as the fate deciders rather they've taken victory at the poll to be a do or die affair. Power tussle among politicians in our various states alone, is capable of causing more security worries" he added.
Suggesting a way to end security in Nigeria, Asemota call on the president to replace his service chiefs with competent hands. He said "The president has given the the service chiefs time enough,and over and over again,they've just proved how incompetent they can be. So sack them all and replace them with competent and detribalized men,who'll put the interest of the country first above the interest of any ethnic or religious groups.
He also call on the president to give more priority to the welfare of Nigeria police and other armed forces.

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