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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has thrown his weight behind the setting up of community, state and zonal policing to complement federal policing.

In a statement on Sunday by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, the ex-Vice President emphasised that the primary responsibility of government at all levels is the protection of lives and property of the citizens, as enshrined in the constitution.

Atiku’s statement is coming on the heels of controversy over the setting up of a t security outfit, Amotekun, by governors of the six states in the Southwest.

“In carrying out this function, the state employs different layers of measures to ensure effective and efficient policing. It is without doubt that in the past decade particularly, the current policing istration 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 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”, Atiku said.

According to him, 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 added that it’s obvious that current levels of insecurity in the country are giving rise to major initiatives such as Amotekun and the issue need not be controversial in the first place.

Atiku argued that the police are likely to be more effective if they constantly operate in the same local community or local government because such closeness might create a bond with the local people, thereby enabling community cooperation and participation that would engender proactive outcomes in crime prevention.

Continuing, he said, “Nigeria is a vast country facing enormous security challenges and, therefore, there is the urgent need to create more security structures at the local levels to reduce the burden on the federal police.

“The issue of security shouldn’t be politicised and monopolised in the face of our current alarming security challenges characterised by the fear of even travelling on our highways by the citizens who might be intercepted by kidnappers and taken hostage for ransom.

“Local policing shouldn’t be mistaken for an effort to hijack the role of the federal police or a competition with the federal government.

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“The obvious inadequacies of the federal police to effectively deal with these rapidly growing security challenges make local policing not only desirable, but also necessary.

“The police are more likely to be effective in areas where they are well known and trusted by the local communities who in turn are willing to share information about known criminals and criminal activities, thereby foiling those crimes before they are even carried out.

“It is a given perception that when people have a role in their own security, they are going to help to defeat the criminal in their tracks and that the more they are involved, the more likely they would perceive the police as their friends”.

Atiku however canvassed a reduction of states and local governments to peripheral players in security matters in the envisaged new policing order.

He stated further that when local police structures are closest to the grassroots, emergency response will be more effective than the current unwieldy chain of command that renders local government chairmen ineffective when their people are under attacks.

“As a matter of fact, it is refusing to adopt new ways of doing things that poses a threat to the unity of the country. It has never been this bad to the extent of threatening the unity of the country”, he added.

https://thenationonlineng.net/amotekun-atiku-backs-community-state-zonal-policing/

This man just spoke the mind of Nigerians

In d North if to say for long we come up with security outfit like Amotekun, we ll not be having Fulani gunmen kidnapping issues today.
This operation is commendable to every right thinking Nigeria.

seunmsg:
Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk.

Or the time to it you were scammed with cheap promises

Hmmn! Nice one

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Na wao

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Well said sir.Meanwhile, the end of all these is that the FG /state government have failed woefully in providing security yet the FG failed to declear a national emergency on this important segment of our national life.

This is because all heads of our military and paramilitary security agencies are mostly headed by incompetent & complicit core hausa-fulani muslims who are not ready to compromised their privileged positions bequeathed to them by their revolving musical chair military coup merchant kindreds since the post July-1966 Nigeria.

So others region including the North Central(Middle Belt-formerly of the famed "Monolithic North" ) are no more seen as stakeholders in the Nigerian state hence the various agitations by the political power blocks for self actualization.

Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal considerations and the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties. Insecurity is the biggest threat to national unity and this must be dealt with through collaboration between all tiers of government.

My people, you can see the difference between a lettered fellow and NEPA bill certificate fellow.

seunmsg:
Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal consideration and the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties. I

Sadly, I don't think APC ever will under Bubu because he comes from a conservative strain/stock of the Northern establishment. Atiku is apparently more pro-federalism than Buhari will ever be.

seunmsg:
Community & state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal considerations & the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties.

Insecurity is the biggest threat to national unity and this must be dealt with through collaboration between all tiers of government

After how,many years? Even the restructuring question that was among the most noised manifesto have long been dump in the political dustbin of the failed and denied promises of the APC regime.

When he was shouting that BH have been technically defeated? Fulanis have killed with utter impunity yet he refused to declared them the terrorists that they rightly are.So who is fooling who?

The man on seat today will do nada to improve any security because all his actions since inception shows that he is on a mission.

seunmsg:
Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal considerations and the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties. Insecurity is the biggest threat to national unity and this must be dealt with through collaboration between all tiers of government.

Won't you abuse the man?

This is how an intelligent man talks. Nothing confrontational. Right choice of words.

I have no doubt buhari would give his position too, in front of international audience of course, and you can expect the worse.

BTW, this Amotoekun issue could be a low hanging political fruit for PDP as a party irrespective of which tribe flies their ticket next.

I still wonder why so many cows are crying and afraid of a bunch of leopards. Should a cow be afraid of a leopard as big as the cow is?

Lol

Atiku can now open his mouth to talk on this issue also.
Same thing he and his Oga never did for all the wasted and years of looting they were in power.
The era when the most popular song in Nigeria was Nigeria jagajaga!

A period that a sitting vice president has the company that import the largest numbers of generators in different shapes and sizes,
How will they ever want us to have electricity?
Why won't they want us to remain in perpetual darkness!

A nation that the same vice president and the sitting president both floated 2 private universities for themselves while the Federal and State universities were on endless strikes!
universities that they are still operating up till this present day!
There was a nation!
If only our Democracy started with a Man like Our darling Daddy, President Muhammadu Buhari......If and only If!

ers of evil and corrupt politicians you can now start quoting...
You have the floor now.............

budaatum:

Trust Atiku to anything that destabilises the country so that he can loot with impunity. And those "ers of evil and corrupt politicians", think we are all too stupid to understand their evil plans!

They should dream on about their amotekun because that's the only place they'll get it.

Don't mind these criminals.
They are nothing but hypocrites.
One step ahead we are!
No to corruption in our land again.

Oh I know Atiku would definitely the south west on this because he is against this government.

We are still waiting for .........



I didn't mention anybody ooo!

Atiku has always maintained that the police at the centre cant police Nigeria effectively

Not surprised

Lmao
This one is looking for sympathy

This one wants to take advantage of the propaganda.

Continue deceiving ya self

Osheyyy

Amotekun is not constitutional...you cant have another security outfit in a country with one central security set up.
These governors are not well advised...they should have pressured their representatives in the national assembly to laws that allows state policing.
I see this getting to the supreme court which am sure they would lose.

Our mumum don do truly.

Now, the Northerners will give us our respect if we insist on this operation.

Let grow beyond the level of letting north detect to us how we should live our life in our own land.




#OURMUMUMDONDO

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seunmsg:
Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal considerations and the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties. Insecurity is the biggest threat to national unity and this must be dealt with through collaboration between all tiers of government.

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Atiku is indeed an intelligent man and a real democrat.

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Lol

Atiku can now open his mouth to talk on this issue also.
Same thing he and his Oga never did for all the wasted and years of looting they were in power.
The era when the most popular song in Nigeria was Nigeria jagajaga!

A period when a sitting president and vice President.....

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Yep

seunmsg:
Community and state policing featured prominently in APC manifesto. This is the time to walk the talk. The president must resist all political and tribal considerations and the effort of south western states to protect lives and properties. Insecurity is the biggest threat to national unity and this must be dealt with through collaboration between all tiers of government.

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Nobody is against community or state policing but there must be laws that establishes it and it's only the national assembly that can that laws.

The real President of Nigeria robbed by Nigeria's deadliest unarmed robbery squad called Supreme Court

Emeka Ihedioha's foolish judgment by the APC hijacked Supreme Court further exposed the reason why Buhari ensured former Nigeria's CJN Onnoghen was toppled and hastely removed and replaced with a Sharia loyalist

I don't know what to say