All governors in the South West region have renewed their call for creation of State Police as one of the ways to overcome insecurity in the region and country as a whole.
The governors made the call yesterday barely days after their northern counterparts and traditional leaders made similar demand for creation of State Police in the nineteen northern states.
Southern Governors’ Forum commended the resolution of the 19 Northern States Governors’ Forum and Northern Traditional Rulers Council for supporting creation of State Police to combat worsening insecurity in the country.
According to a statement issued yesterday by the Southern Governors’ Forum chairman and Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, members of the forum said the decision by their colleagues to back the call for constitutional amendment to reflect the current realities could not have come at a better time than now when the confidence in the capacity of the Federal Government to secure the country appears shaky.
“We, on our part at the Southern Governors’ Forum, have continued to reiterate the fact of the incongruity inherent in an arrangement which purports to be federal, nominally, but whose observances stand at variance with the best practices espoused by climes considered advanced and progressing, amenable to nuances and adaptations which reflect and accommodate the yearnings for inclusion of the component units.
“We will continue to insist on the creation of state police as the only logical and pragmatic solution to the pervasive problem of insecurity in the land.
“In addition to this, we shall not fail to renew the call for the adoption of policies geared towards real devolution of powers to the federating units indeed. This is the surest path to peace and progress.”
