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Former Nigeria President Olusegun Obasanjo has recommended the formation of state police system to curb the insecurity in the country.

Obasanjo said this when he received the leadership of the Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen in Nigeria in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday.

The former president suggested that the security threat in Nigeria requires such an approach and argued that it remains a better option than community policing.

“Our situation in Nigeria concern everyone, particularly the case of terrorism – the case has gotten over the issue of community police,” Obasanjo said. “It is now state police. It is from that state police that we can now be talking about community police.”

Obasanjo also spoke on the need to strengthen the traditional system and the local government administration to function as the closest institutions to the people, providing for their immediate needs.

He recalled the Murtala/Obasanjo administration initiated the third tier of government to work truly like a local government, having its own executive, judiciary and legislature.

Obasanjo said the local governments “were working, and they were very visible, building and managing roads, looking into education, health, local administration, agriculture, but they were all gone.”

The former president said the former chairmen’s experience in local government administration was enough to aspire for higher posts, stressing that some of them have the competence, ability and integrity to get to those posts.

Obasanjo commended the initiative behind the formation of the body, adding that the development clearly showed that some local chairmen in the country were better than even the top elected leaders.

The pioneer national chairman of the association, Albert Ashipa; the Ogun State chapter chairman, Shoyemi Coker; the BOT chairperson, Chinwe Monu-Olarewaju; and the traditional ruler of Odogbolu, Toye Mojeed Alatise, were among those present.

Ashipa had earlier told Mr Obasanjo why they came together in all the 774 local governments in the country. He said they are convinced they can also contribute to the economy and political developments of the country.

“And realising your position as father of local government in Nigeria, we need you to actualize our goals, hence this all-important visit. And to come and say happy 85th birthday celebration,” Ashipa said.

Way to go

I'm sure the next president will approve that

Truth is with state police , resources control their is no way Nigeria can develop absolutely no way

We all can't develop at the same pace it's impossible

TELL DIS ZOMBIE MAKE HE CHILL..







NOBODY ASKED HIS OPINION...

Okay

If obasanjo enter heven then we have been sarving non existent god �

Who is he telling? Wasn't he once the president?

This is like the ex-husband of a woman who couldn't impregnate her for the 8years they were together now advising the current husband, "See as you go take fuvk her make she get belly"


Yeye dey smell....

When PDP was in power, OBJ openly rejected the call for state policing. If Baba had use his powers to effect that, we wouldn’t have been in the current dilemma.

One thing about our politician is hypocrisy. When they are outside power, they have the best people friendly agenda but when they get to power they suddenly become the people’s enemy.

Let’s hope the next government can carefully lobby the legislative arm to get us state policing in Nigeria.

Why didn't he institute state police when he was the president?

Kpengla:
Why didn't he institute state police when he was the president?

That man is a confusionist..
Once he's not the one in charge, he will be restless and will always find faults. It's just that Buhari is a basket case, otherwise Obasanjos criticisms are mostly driven by self interest..

I think regional police will be better ( Geopolitical zones)
under control of a Service Commission of officials elected by civil society and interest groups e,g Markets, Traditional rulers, youth etc and some appointees by local governments If a DPO knows that the local community can remove him things will change

Same state police Jagaban suggested and he opposed. Why be say na after dem leave office dia brain dey reset gan sef. Dis man fight Jagaban with federal might on top dis state police so tey Jagaban settled for only Lastma and Kai so dat one day, na only d arm bearing unit go remain to make am Lagos Police Service.

state police that the federal government don't want to create so that there will be more control of the force from the federal government.
unable to create state police is a act of selfishness and not that they can't create it.

Before state police can work effectively, you need to change our system of government.
By running to Abuja every month for allocation, the can't sustain it. And most of politicians are power drunked, any little thing the will use the police against political opponents.
We are not ripe for that now

eburuu:
If obasanjo enter heven then we have been sarving non existent god �

How will a Nigerian politician make heaven?
Impuscate

Toluajas:
I'm sure the next president will approve that

Pikin, President or House of Assembly?

This same bill that was rejected last month?

abobote:
Before state police can work effectively, you need to change our system of government.
By running to Abuja every month for allocation, the can't sustain it. And most of politicians are power drunked, any little thing the will use the police against political opponents.
We are not ripe for that now

Dead on arrival, ordinary vigilante groups they can organize, it is indisciplined police with impunity a state wants to control?

Fayose would have still been Governor of Ekiti State.

Theactor:
state police that the federal government don't want to create so that there will be more control of the force from the federal government.
unable to create state police is a act of selfishness and not that they can't create it.

Some of you kids are extremely naive & ignorant, how can the executive Federal Government create state police?

Hgg

People become good advisers when they are not in power.

mrvitalis:
Truth is with state police , resources control their is no way Nigeria can develop absolutely no way

We all can't develop at the same pace it's impossible

There is no part of Nigeria that is not blessed with resources of different kinds. even the north that many people see as barren has many resources that have never been harnessed. total resource control will encourage many states to look inwards. Nigeria can't rely on southern oil forever.

Bastard.....when the igbos and northerners voted you into power why didn't you push for it....mad man

Some of you kids are extremely naive & ignorant, how can the executive Federal Government create state police?
if u have no knowledge about a stuff,is better u completely go dumb,don't u know that federal government must give a go ahead bfor any state can create there own police, u are just too dumb and no nothing,u are just the little kid here with empty skull.

sapele914:
Some of you kids are extremely naive & ignorant, how can the executive Federal Government create state police?

or State Police. by Theactor (m ): 3:21am

if u have no knowledge about a stuff,is better u completely go dumb,don't u know that federal government must give a go ahead bfor any state can create there own police, u are just too dumb and know nothing,u are just the little kid here with empty skull.

100% COOOOORECT.

He is actually right. Resource control and State policing would go a long way but then again, y didn't he do it when he was President?

STATE IGP WITH DIRECT RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE STATE GOVERNMENTS,
VATS ON BUSINESSES CONDUCTED IN THE STATES AND
ALL DEPUTATIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND ELECTIONS OF STATES BY THE STATES
SHOULD BE RELATE ABLE TO THE STATES AND MANAGED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE STATES.
HENCEFORTH, ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE TO STATE GOVERNMENTS.

Wike was the only person who made move to create state police in South South. Asking an APC government who took military to stop the training is a comedy on its own.

We all know it will pass through the deaf ears of APC leadership.

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LegendHero:
When PDP was in power, OBJ openly rejected the call for state policing. If Baba had use his powers to effect that, we wouldn’t have been in the current dilemma.

One thing about our politician is hypocrisy. When they are outside power, they have the best people friendly agenda but when they get to power they suddenly become the people’s enemy.

Let’s hope the next government can carefully lobby the legislative arm to get us state policing in Nigeria.

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LegendHero:
When PDP was in power, OBJ openly rejected the call for state policing. If Baba had use his powers to effect that, we wouldn’t have been in the current dilemma.

One thing about our politician is hypocrisy. When they are outside power, they have the best people friendly agenda but when they get to power they suddenly become the people’s enemy.

Let’s hope the next government can carefully lobby the legislative arm to get us state policing in Nigeria.

God bless you abundantly for this reminder. I just realized that the only actual problem in this country is the short memory of those who call themselves youths. I was shocked to see people online giving credit Obasanjo for this hypocritic outburst just because he seems to be against the present administration. This attitude of the enemy of my enemy is my friend is what is killing this country and not corruption or any of the other factors we blame.
Who is Obasanjo to advise the government to look the way of state police which he himself argued would never work even though the centralized police was clearly failing right under his nose as president from 1999 to 2007? This shameless opportunist's hypocrisy is further appreciated when one considers how he quickly volunteered his property as LCDA secretariat when Amosun created LCDAs in Ogun State and made his village one of the headquarters .....the same man who held Lagos State's allocation for years claiming the creation of LCDAs was illegal even when the Supreme Court had ruled otherwise.