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General News of Monday, 12 July 2021

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Nigeria’s policing system has failed - Ekweremadu laments

Ike Ekweremadu Ike Ekweremadu

Former Deputy President of Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu has stated that the Nigerian police service has woefully failed to deal with or combat the rising cases of insecurity in the country.

He made the statement on Monday, June 12, 2021, in Lagos, Nigeria while addressing the topic, “Nigerian State and the Call for Restructuring" at the opening of Law Week 2021 of the Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ekweremadu called for the decentralisation of the police.
“Our policing system has failed woefully. There are no other federating states that have done what we are doing in policing.

“It is no surprise that with the capsizing of the national police, the nation’s security has also collapsed.

“In an instance where we have decentralised police, we will have a federal police system and 774 police systems in all the 774 local governments in the 36 states and in Abuja.

“The implication, therefore, is that if the federal police fail, we have additional layers in 36 states; but right now, they are absent.

“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 lamented.