State Police, Not Amotekun Is The Way To Go – Okupe

Dr. Doyin Okupe has congratulated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for leading the Federal Government team that met with Southwest governors to resolve controversies over the establishment of the regional security outfit, Amotekun.

Okupe, who served as a presidential aide in the Olusegun Obasanjo and the Goodluck Jonathan administrations, however, submitted that the solution worked out was impracticable saying that the time had come for the introduction of state police.

He said:

“The furore created and the national tension that ensued were unnecessary and preventable. But let’s thank God that Wisdom has prevailed at all levels and what needs to be done has been clearly ironed out amicably by all concerned.

“My worries, however, centre on the inevitable consequences of the decisions reached at your meeting with the southwest governors and the actions and reactions that will likely follow.

“I foresee in the next few weeks that various state chief executives and regions in the country will come up with their own security apparatuses for their own local environments. Fundamentally, nothing is wrong with this likely development.

“However, at this stage of our national development, we must align with modernity and civilisation.

“Instead of creating a motley web of mushroom, primitive, and unstandardized local security outfits nationwide, it will be better if we take the bull by the horn.

“The truth is that THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE POLICE.

“Running from this obvious fact is grand deception and a great disservice to our people.

“I am aware that the federal government is seriously considering the establishment of community policing.

“This project begs the issue. It is unitary and therefore, antithetical to the dictates of Federalism.

“When we have state police controlled by the state governments, thereafter the states can embark on community policing by themselves at their convenience and on their own varied terms.

“For someone or groups of people to sit in Abuja, design and operate a community policing agenda is unacceptable and unworkable.

“Your Excellency Nigeria can only make progress if its leaders think less of today and always plan for years and years ahead, keeping away from primordial and primitive considerations and ever willing to divest themselves of powers and controls that will make the society freer and safer.”

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