Insecurity:Only state police can solve the problem, Afenifere scribe

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National publicity secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has said that the planned security initiative by the governors of the six states in the South West would remain a toothless bulldog until the constitution permits creation of state police.
Odumakin who spoken in an exclusive interview with Newdawn online, said that,as per today’s constitution, governors ate only chief security officers of their States in the pages of book.
This he said us quite strange and will continue to be do since Nigeria is d only diverse country in the world which runs a unitary structure and with only one federal police set up
According to him, since state police commissioners often takes directives from the inspector general of police ,no security measure put in place could address the serious security issues which has dislocated families in the south west.

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He regretted that an average Yoruba man merely go to other states to work without lording themselves on them adding,”I don’t know why they are doing this to us since our people never dominate others where they go to work and live.
Said he “the menace of Fulani herdsmen is such that husbands whose wife’s give birth have to conduct test to determine the correct paternity of their children”
On whether the states could pay salaries of the police,he said since the states are the ones buying vehicles and other equipments for the federal police,they could as well run a state police.
“Lagos alone has one eight of the national budget which is bigger than many countries in west africa” so it can conveniently run an effective police system”.
As for him, this situation has never happened even when the toughest battle for the conquest of Yoruba land took place in Osogbo in 1904.
Odumakin describes the current security situation in the southwest to a people under internal colonialism.
On the security summit organised by former head of state,general abdusalam abubakar,he said nothing could be achieved with the summit since only two out of the six geo political zones in the country are represented.
“A situation where no traditional ruler is invited from the south west which had only three notable Yoruba. Generals Alani Akinrinade,Isola Williams and Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and no notable leader from the south east, south south and middle belt region shows the lack of legitimacy among cross section of Nigerians.

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