Joining calls for state police, a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, said in Lagos on Monday that Nigeria’s policing system had failed to tackle insecurity. Ekweremadu said the decentralisation of the police had become expedient in the face of rising wave of banditry and kidnapping across the country. x“Our policing system has failed woefully. Ekweremadu said that restructuring the police was no longer a matter of choice but a matter of urgency. “Now that the federal policing have collapsed because they do not have the resources, the funding and the manpower, there is nothing to hold on to, Ekweremadu stressed.

Source: The Guardian July 12, 2021 12:22 UTC