Insecurity: No Alternative Solution To State Police, Rep Member Tells Southwest Governors

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Delegated Legislation, Hon Femi Bamisile, has backed the Southwest governors over their call for the establishment of State Police to tackle the festering insecurity in the national interest.

Bamisile, who is a former Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, stated that the measure remains the most potent way to resolve the lingering and escalating killings and kidnappings that are raging across the country like a bush fire in the harmattan.

The former speaker said this in a statement issued through his Media Office in Abuja on Tuesday.

Bamisile said fighting insecurity using central policing and military systems may not be as efficacious as the ones set up by the subnational, saying the current security realities of the country make the establishment apt and necessary.

He said over 20 out old the 36 states of the federation are now under the stranglehold of bandits, ISWAP, Boko Haram and marauding herders, which have stressed the police and military beyond elastic limit.

Bamisile, who commended the security forces for their gallantry and sense of patriotism to nation building, pointed out that it will be difficult for them to perform accurately and satisfactorily in view of the drudgery involved in their operations.

The federal lawmaker commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and security agencies for swiftly securing the release of captors held hostage after the attack on a church at Eruku, Kwara State.

“We are begging the President to extend similar gestures for the quick release of students abducted after attacks on a private Catholic School in Niger State and another public school at Maga, in Kebbi State.

“The quick release of these students will restore dignity of our education system. No meaningful progress can be achieved in our education sector, when the pre-university education, which is the bedrock of the higher education, is endangered”.

Speaking further on the imperative of Nigerians embracing State police, Bamisile said: “About 20 out of the 36 states of the federation are experiencing one form of insecurity case.

“It is either they are being hit by bandits, rampaging herders, ISWAP, or Boko Haram. The problems are multifaceted and multidimensional, which require a multi-pronged security architecture to be solved.

“Looking at the broad-based dimension, the insecurity has snowballed into our military and police are already overstretched. They have to be complemented at the state level, and that is where State Police becomes a way out, no other alternative solution with the current trends that we are experiencing”.