Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has emphasizes the need for state policing as he lamented the federal government’s failure to protect the country.
Ishaku made the statement when he paid a condolence visit to the residence of the late Ardo-Kola Local government chairman who was kidnapped and murdered on January 24.
According to him, the constitution of the country is defective, hence the need to review it in order to accommodate state policing accurately for the safety of lives and property in Nigeria.
”Since I came to power, I have repeatedly and I am going to repeat it that unless we breakdown the strata of security agencies in Nigeria, particularly the police, we cannot adequately curtail insecurity,”
”There must be state police, and there must also be local government police.
”The Federal government alone cannot handle the security of this nation. It has shown that it has failed woefully and for us to achieve results, the security has to be broken down’
”Where we copied this constitution is the United States of America and it has Federal, state, and local government police.
”Where something is bigger than the local government police, the state police comes in and where it is bigger than the state police, the Federal police comes in and where it is bigger than the whole three, then the military is invited.
”The military is the last resort there, but ours here the military is the first resort because we have woefully failed.”
”I am also calling on all politicians in the position of power to seriously look at the security situation in the country.
”In this state, I have lost so many people that I cannot count, this is a chairman that I have lost now, I lost my own member Taraba state house of Assembly Hosea Ibi and others too numerous to mention.
”And I speak to you, there is tension in the southwest, but do we continue to sleep with one eye closed and keep quiet as if nothing is happening? No.”
”Something is happening which desperately needs an answer.”
