₦airaland Forum

Kobicove:
Just imagine the nightmare one will face when travelling by road...you might encounter policemen from 6 or 7 different states then also have to deal with federal policemen.

If there is an accidental discharge by a policeman and it results in death, finding the culprit will be virtually impossible because all the states will deny culpability!

Even with the current police checkpoints on the road, I have stopped traveling with my car. I don't want anyone to stress me or waste my time when all my vehicle documents and particulars are in order.
Coupled with the bad roads

Babanah:
We have to be a bit creative about this lingering problem. We don’t need state policing . What we need is a decentralised Nigerian Police. Power should be devolved to the Police Commissioners in the states. The IG cannot run the police from Abuja. Second funding should come from the three tiers of government. So the state police commissioner will prepare his budget based on funding input from the three tiers of government.The federal government may pay salaries, the state governments in charge of building infrastructure and local governments could maintain for the benefit of the local population. Also the state police commissioner will only be appointed after prior consultation with the state government, conversely if the state police commissioner is not up to the job, the state governor can publicly declare that he has lost confidence in the state police commissioner. In that case there are checks and balances.

Let those who want to arm themselves to break away do so! After all what is the big deal? When it is not as if they are feeding you. People on government payroll in this country are not up to three million of the almost 100 million working age people. If they breakaway are they going with your local government? Please security first. Most states have enough population to be a country

treesun:
“Yet the fact that State Police is necessary does not mean it is sufficient.”
“The security crisis is real, but it is not fundamentally a policing crisis...

So is it a random posting of say a policeman from Taraba to a place like Okitipupa in Ondo state that will result in the imminent mastery of the terrain, understanding the way of the locals or identification of key actors in this highly volatile security threats that leaves little window for intervention between movements and actual attacks, as currently obtains? You want every community to remain a sitting duck for these marauders? I am surprised that people can actually choose to remain helpless but be screaming on social media attack after attack? Well, it's alright. Should we let slip this window of opportunity to pass this law, then we may never get it again under a different administration. Or it may also be looking like ending the insecurity is not the aim of some people after all but to keep on mishandling it and to allow it to result into something much more extreme, like disintegration, to happen in Nigeria.

I can understand you, because you couldn't understand her write-up, maybe the grammar there is confusing you.

seunmsg:
The constitution is why Boko Haram are killing people? The constitution is why Ipob are killing people and eating human flesh? The constitution is why fulani terrorists are kidnapping people and displacing villages?

The duplicitous character of this woman is worse than that of Peter Obi. What exactly is the definition of restructuring in Nigeria's context if not what Tinubu is doing? Local government autonomy, regional development commissions for all regions, decentralization of electricity generation and distribution, tax reforms to give states and LGA more revenues, now state police. So, what's restructuring if not all these?

When Oby was in bed as minister with Obasanjo, what restructuring did she put in place other than messing up the secondary school system? When Jonathan was president, what restructuring did he introduced? Now that someone is finally getting things done, they are still hating on him. Sigh!

Even me self I know

No be only u self know ma

U see
Any idea by any leader or anybody of these country today aside disintegration
Na wayo and e no go help anything
All na scam

Full restructuring self is irrelevant
We need to divide the country and have different nations that will be speaking one native language

Nigeria is not one

Northsouth:
Even me self I know

No be only u self know ma

U see
Any idea by any leader or anybody of these country today aside disintegration
Na wayo and e no go help anything
All na scam

Full restructuring self is irrelevant
We need to divide the country and have different nations that will be speaking one native language

Nigeria is not one

Thank you. Whoever does not want you to arm yourself even as an individual despite that you are a responsible person not to talk of as a group running into millions is your enemy.

lawani:
Thank you. Whoever does not want you to arm yourself even as an individual despite that you are a responsible person not to talk of as a group running into millions is your enemy.

yes o my number one enemy self
Because terrorists are kidnapping and killing people
They are calling it banditary
Imagine that audacity to play on intellectuals intelligence

The government cannot secure both our lives and properties and they are saying you should neither arm yourself not take laws into your own hands
What laws?
They same lame laws that makes us sitting ducks

Ah don tire for the country
Even the Masses that are suffering the most are not even understanding the point
Na the same Majority wey Carry the vote dey suffer

Chai

ResidentSnitch:
This woman helped in putting Nigeria in this mess it is currently in now by bringing in the worst leaders. I remember how they used her, how she'd sit and roll on the floor, with mucous running down freely from her nose during the BBOG, how she'd go around posturing and speaking against a government at the behest of monsters she helped to put in power. She allowed herself to be used, and almost destroyed her legacy.

Savage, you are too wicked, see me rolling with laughter. How can a grown up woman be having mucus.

Ok, we don hear. Since the president has been making effort to make the local governments viable and the governors have been opposing it, have you said anything in support of the president? Or don't you think that is part of restructuring? By the way, it will be better if you can list those items you want removed from the exclusive list so we can know. The fact is that restructuring will not be done once and for all, it will continue to be a gradual and on-going process. Any effort made in that direction should be encouraged.

treesun:
https://punchng.com/state-police-wont-fix-insecurity-ezekwesili-warns-urges-full-restructuring/

This woman na didirin. Is state police not part of restructuring? Do you think some people like to hear restructuring at all? It is circumstances like this which can be used to start the gradual process until the haters can do nothing about it again.

Northsouth:
yes o my number one enemy self
Because terrorists are kidnapping and killing people
They are calling it banditary
Imagine that audacity to play on intellectuals intelligence

The government cannot secure both our lives and properties and they are saying you should neither arm yourself not take laws into your own hands
What laws?
They same lame laws that makes us sitting ducks

Ah don tire for the country
Even the Masses that are suffering the most are not even understanding the point
Na the same Majority wey Carry the vote dey suffer

Chai

Only three types of people are against the decentralization of security in all it's ramifications

Those who have not thought about it properly
Those who are looking for a chance to rule others by force and dictate to them on their lands.
Those who do not want the country to break up.

lawani:
Only three types of people are against the decentralization of security in all it's ramifications

Those who have not thought about it properly
Those who are looking for a chance to rule others by force and dictate to them on their lands.
Those who do not want the country to break up.

Ah go even classify everything under enemy of humanity
Dem know say the country is not one
Still, Dem dey talk about unity
No be juju be that?
Anyway jokes apart
You see those set of people you mentioned above
The day the first set realize it properly is that day the second set will pay dearly
About the 3rd set, well maybe the British government or other Islamic lobbyist
But all I know is anybody can be put to shame regardless of the Commonwealth or whatever

SmartyPants:
How is that possible - there is obviously territorial jurisdiction. There's no reason for policemen from Lagos to be found on the roads in Ogun. And I don't see how any state would allow such.

When you're traveling by road at some point you will need to cross the border from one state to another state; police men from each state will man the borders into their respective states and start harassing motorists

Madam don come,so how is this not going to help Nigeria in Combating Insecurity - Since Each State Police- Personnel Are Verse in the Geopolitical Environment of Each State?
Please, Madam, let's leave Politics Out of this Serious Matter!
The State Police has Come to Stay.
NIGERIANS Expect The Senate To be Swift in Signing this Into Law - as we don't want Unnecessary Delay 🥳

Huh

zoedew:
In one breath you are asking for your girls to be brought back while in another breath you say State Police is not it🧐. Truth is, no one knows the terrain better than State Police. Everywhere in the world that policing g has been properly done community and state police has been the way to go! The Sheriff knows almost everyone in his town and they know him. In the typical Borough it is not a secret that your next door neighbour is a police man or woman who will help tell your folks back home when the day's work is done that he just locked you up for some infraction and that your folks get dinner across to you in the cell!😅

LEARN TO READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT.

She did not say State Police is wrong.

According to her State Police is needed but noted that the federal government should do more than state police.

She says comprehensive restructuring is desirable to make Nigeria a true federation.

She said there are too many powers with the federal government. In

Iolo:
I would have expected Mrs Ezekwesili to have been more specific. What items on the exclusive list today need to get moved.

She’s also not acknowledged the fact that the country over the past 10 years has been on that journey of decentralising powers previously restricted to the FG. Yet, it doesn’t seem like states and LG are riding on this to make their citizens lives better. How many states have domesticated electricity act today?

Electricity, Prison operations, Railway, LG autonomy, Judicial and House of Assembly autonomy and now state police (if passed) have moved to the concurrent list. The question in my opinion is not just further constitutional amendments, but putting in place mechanisms to hold leaders accountable for failure to act.

I think you may have missed the central point of Mrs. Ezekwesili's argument. She is not saying that State Police or the transfer of a few items from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List is unnecessary. In fact, she clearly states that State Police is necessary. Her argument is that these isolated reforms are not sufficient because they do not address the deeper constitutional imbalance.

Yes, over the past decade, some powers such as electricity, railways, prisons, and local government autonomy have been partially decentralised. But these are still selective amendments within a constitutional framework that continues to concentrate excessive fiscal, political, and administrative power at the centre. The Federal Government still dominates revenue allocation, mineral resources, policing, internal security coordination, major infrastructure, and numerous other sectors that naturally fit a true federation.

The issue is not simply whether a state has domesticated the Electricity Act. The bigger question is whether states have enough constitutional authority, fiscal independence, and accountability to design and implement policies that reflect their unique circumstances. A governor who depends largely on monthly allocations from Abuja rather than a productive local economy has less incentive to innovate or govern efficiently.

Furthermore, accountability and restructuring are not mutually exclusive; they are complementary. A more decentralised federation actually improves accountability because citizens can more easily hold state and local leaders responsible for outcomes when those governments have genuine control over their affairs. It becomes harder for governors to hide behind the excuse that "Abuja controls everything."

So, the conversation should not be framed as "constitutional amendments versus accountability." Nigeria needs both. The gradual movement of a handful of items to the Concurrent List is welcome, but it does not amount to the comprehensive restructuring required to transform what remains, in many respects, a highly centralised system into a genuinely federal one.

wink2015:
Huh

LEARN TO READ BEFORE YOU COMMENT.

She did not say State Police is wrong.

According to her State Police is needed but noted that the federal government should do more than state police.

She says comprehensive restructuring is desirable to make Nigeria a true federation.

She said there are too many powers with the federal government. In

In summary, does her position advance the the establishment of State Police NOW? Do please be intellectually honest in your answer?