Atiku backs creation of local policing
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the creation of local policing structures in the country to complement the Federal Police would help in tackling the security challenges bedevilling the nation.
Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, also cautioned that the issue of security should not be politicised and monopolised in the face of the current security challenges.
Atiku, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Paul Ibe, alleged that the security forces were incapable of providing adequate security for Nigerians, hence the need for the creation of various local policing structures to end killings.
“It is without doubt that in the past decade particularly, the current policing administration in our dear country had been stretched to its limits and it is obvious that the reality of our domestic security upheaval will demand of us to recalibrate our police
The Federal Government says it will soon launch 48 units block of flats under a housing scheme called Rent-to-Own project for low-income earners in the six geo-political zones of the country. Acting Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority, Umar Gonto, disclosed this in Abuja when he received the Chief Executive Officer of SERVICOM, Nnenna Akajemeli, who was on advocacy visit.
Gonto, according to a statement yesterday by the systems.
“In the First Republic, before we gravitated too much to the centre, policing was done federally with each native authority and region having some mechanisms to deal with little upsets that were the security concerns of those times.
“In the present day Nigeria, there is hardly any state of the federation that does not contend with some type of security challenges. Because our security challenges are diverse in forms and impacts, it is thus incumbent that centrally controlled police architecture cannot exclusively deal with those challenges.
“Consequently, there is need for the creation of additional policing structures in the country to address the rapidly growing challenges of insecurity and crime.
“The time is ripe to seriously confront the reality of insecurity in the country by addressing the urgency of introducing state police, zonal police and community policing to complement the efforts of the current federal police,” he said. public awareness manager of SERVICOM, Henrietta Okokon, assured of quality service delivery in the housing sector.
Earlier, Akajemeli had said the circular from the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, mandating all ministries, departments and agencies to ensure their SERVICOM units work directly under the CEOs or MDs, would eliminate bottlenecks in access to chief executives and empower staff of SERVICOM units to function optimally.