Are you worried about the spate of killings and kidnapping across the country
Nobody can be happy with what is happening in Nigeria. it is rather unfortunate, it is sad. The state of insecurity in the country is very bad but I believe the government is doing its best…
The number one constitutional mandate of any government is securing the lives and properties of its members and in the light of what is happening in Nigeria, has this government lived up to expectations
I will not say that the Federal Government has failed and there is no place in the world that is safe now, it is just that the degree of our own is worst. I think the government has tried and they are also facing challenges
The south/west came up with the idea of Amotekun to check insecurity, should other zones start thinking of creating their security outfit too
Amotekun was created out of necessity, it was established by the government of the south/west to compliment the effort of the centralized security agencies.
Does it mean that the security apparatus of the Federal Government has been overwhelmed?
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4 days agoThere is no doubt about that, and that is why we need to establish other alternatives to complement their efforts. I will advise every zone to do the same to the extent that, the south/west appears to be the most secure part of the country now. I am surprised that most of these northern states like north/west, north/east, and north/central where insecurity is worst have not thought to establish complementary security outfits that will work hand in hand with the conventional security we have in Nigeria.
Some believe that the country is restructured and go back to zones so that each will take care of its problems. Do you share this view?
The problem of Nigeria is the over-centralization of power. We are a multi-ethnic and multi-religion nation with a huge population. We cannot centralize everything. We must decentralize power so that people can manage their affairs as they deem fit. When I was growing up, we had the native authority who know everybody in the community. Then houses do not have a fence yet, there was no insecurity. We need to give states and local governments the latitude to develop at their own pace. Restructuring is all-encompassing, it means the security apparatus must be restructured, you will have state and local government police. When I was minister of works state, I discover that the federal roads were too much for the federal government alone to handle and there was no way to coup with it. Many of those roads should be given back to the states and the money given to them to fix the roads and the federal should just monitor them. The Federal Government does not have the capacity of managing all the roads. The unity schools should be given to states to oversee. Obasanjo who brought the idea said, it is to forge unity but with what is happening now no southerner will be sent his child to school in places like Maiduguri. So the aim has been defeated. The schools should be handed over to the states.
The Federal Government have been berated for using kids’ gloves on bandits and insurgents terrorizing Nigerians by refusing to tag them as a terrorist so they can get international support. What do you think?
As far as I am concerned, they are terrorists. What is the difference between what they doing and what other terrorists are doing in other places? They kidnapped people, dehumanized them, sometimes kill them, and collect ransom from the victims? So what is the definition of terrorist? We know them as a terrorists.
Given the opportunity to advise the Federal Government on how to end insecurity in Nigeria, what will it be?
