Nigeria is not yet ready for a state police. – APC Chieftain Okene

Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports

Dr. Khalifa Abdulrahman Okene, a senior member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has advised people to drop their calls for the country’s Constitution to include state police.

Given the link between economic hardship and crime, he claimed that creating state police at this period of economic hardship would strain the nation’s limited resources and be ineffective in the long term.

In order to keep up with international trends in crime prevention and bursting, Okene advised the government to prioritize funding and equipping the nation’s current enforcement structure.

These were said by him yesterday in an interview with journalists in Abuja.

The central police force is suitable for all of us, he claimed. But let them have the right tools. It is already decentralized in and of itself. You have a commissioner of police who is in charge of maintaining security on the territory as a state.

“A Commissioner of Police works for the state and gives security advice to the governor; think of him as a state police. What is the issue if all of the current cops are adequately funded and outfitted? What are we protesting against? What is being restructured?

The head of the APC pleaded with both the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to come to an agreement to terminate the ongoing strike in the universities.

He urged the two to carry on their discussions in an effort to resolve the conflict permanently.

Khalifa Okene bemoaned the possibility that the labor conflict in the education industry will exacerbate social vices and criminality while also undermining attempts to improve the human capital of the country.

In light of the numerous issues the Nigerian educational system is facing, he recommended Nigerians to choose leaders who can improve the system, regardless of their faith or creed.

However, he asserted that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC’s presidential nominee, could restore Nigeria’s lost grandeur in the area of education and restore confidence in the Nigeria project.