The former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has drummed support for State police to end the escalating wave of insecurity bedevilling the country.
Speaking through his Special Assistant to on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi in a statement quoted the former president as stating this when the leadership of the National Association of Ex-Local Government Chairmen in Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta on Wednesday.
The former President said state police would be a better option that should be given a priority above community policing to combat insecurity to a halt in Nigeria.
The Owu Chief also spoke on the need to strengthen the traditional system and the local government administration, saying the current security breakdown in the country is the responsibility of all.
According to him, "The growing case of insecurity has gotten over the issue of community police. It is now state police. It is from that state police that we can now be talking about community police.
“I prepared during the popular Murtala/Obasanjo administration, because I believe that there is need to enable that tier of government to work truly as a local governmen. They have their own Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.
“They were working and they were very visible, building and managing roads, looking into education, health, local administration, agriculture, but they were all gone,” Obasanjo explained.
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