With growing instances of kidnapping and banditry across the country, a legal practitioner, Jiti Ogunye has called for an immediate reconfiguration of the nation’s internal security system.
This, Ogunye said, should take the form of establishment of people’s police for states, local government areas, cities, designated institutions to coexist with the unitary police.
Contained in a Facebook post he made on his wall, Ogunye held that such reconfiguration was imperative to stem the threat to lives posed by the activities of marauding armed bandits, kidnappers.
He likened the state of insecurity in the country to the return of the slave trade era evidenced by instances where armed bandits intermittently waylay, terrorize, kidnap, defile and kill Nigerians.
In particular, Ogunye decried that the growing records of kidnappings in Lagos and on highways in the South West at large pointed to the fact that all Nigerians faced a threat to their existence.
His post read, in parts, “There is an urgent need for a total reconfiguration of the internal security system in Nigeria. Peoples Police (police establishments for states, local government areas, cities, and qualified designated institutions) must be formed to co-exist with the unitary (not Federal) Nigeria Police Force. We delay at our own peril.
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