Obasanjo calls for state police to tackle insecurity in Nigeria

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says only the creation of state police can tackle insecurity in Nigeria.
He was speaking when the leadership of the National Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
Obasanjo in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi said the country’s security situation had grown beyond the one community policing can solve.
“Our situation in Nigeria concerns everyone, particularly, the case of terrorism. The case has gotten over the issue of community police. It is now state police. It is from that state police that we can now be talking about community police.
“I prepared during the popular Murtala/Obasanjo administration, because I believe that there is need to enable that tier of government to work truly as a local government. They have their own Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.
“They were working and they were very visible, building and managing roads, looking into education, health, local administration, agriculture, but they are all gone,” he said.