State police not enough – Ezekwesili calls for constitutional restructuring

After she assessed the projected constitution of authorities police, erstwhile Minister of Education Obiageli Ezekwesili has addressed an unfastened missive to President Bola Tinubu, the National Assembly, the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, and the wider public, arguing that the propulsion for authorities constabulary unsocial volition not resoluteness Nigeria’s insecurity and instability challenges.

In the letter, shared connected Monday crossed her societal media handles, she maintained that broad restructuring of the state remains, successful her view, the much sustainable way to addressing the underlying issues.

In the memorandum, entitled “State Police Is Not the Answer. Restructuring Nigeria Is”, Ezekwesili wrote, “The Tinubu administration’s renewed propulsion for State Police has reopened 1 of the astir consequential nationalist argumentation debates successful Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian history.”

She noted that the connection reflects concerns implicit insecurity successful the country.

“The country’s information architecture is failing. Terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, convulsive extremism, communal conflicts and organised criminality person overwhelmed the capableness of a centrally controlled constabulary unit to unafraid lives and spot crossed a state of much than 230 cardinal people. For galore citizens, therefore, authorities constabulary look to beryllium an evident and long-overdue solution,” she stated.

Citing survey data, Ezekwesili stated, “Recent Afrobarometer findings amusement t...