By Ike Ekweremadu
The National Security Summit initiated by the Senate kicked-off on
Thursday, February 8, 2018 with a clear pro-state police/decentralised policing
disposition by the presidency.
In a speech delivered on his behalf by Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo, President Muhammadu Buhari said: “The nature of our
security challenges is complex. Securing Nigeria ’s over 923,768 square
kilometres and its 180 million people requires far more men and materials than
we have at the moment. It also requires a continual re-engineering of our
security architecture and strategies…. We cannot realistically police a country
the size of Nigeria
centrally from Abuja . State police and other community policing methods are clearly the way to go.”
This is a cheery paradigm shift coming from the presidency and recently from
the Governors Forum.