Ayo Opadokun, the former secretary of the National Democratic Coalition, has urged Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu to redesign the nation’s security framework. She has highlighted that the current framework is insufficient to address the security challenges that the country is currently facing, including the rising violence in the northern region.
Following a suspected terrorist attack on three local government areas in Plateau State that left over 10,000 people displaced and over 150 people tragically dead on Christmas Eve, Opadokun has made this call.
The attackers, who were allegedly carrying thirty motorcycles, opened fire, destroying property and taking lives in the villages they targeted.
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A few days later, the terrorists threatened another village in the state once more, and as a result, gunmen carrying out an attack, resulting in the death of three people in Bokkos Local Government Area.
Although Opadokun acknowledged the remarks made by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Christopher Musa regarding the arrest of people connected to the assaults, he expressed doubts about the effectiveness of Nigeria’s current security setup.
He maintained that the ongoing violence is a sign of the system’s failure to provide long-term, workable answers.
“Buhari as a retired military general promised us that as soon as he got to office, he would defeat the then-raging security crisis but he failed, rather it got worse and that is the situation we are still in.”
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Opadokun said that the President should approve the creation of state police, giving state governors total control over security in their individual states, as a revision to the current security arrangement.
“In the case of an individual sitting in Abuja to assess the security conditions in Offa Local Government Area, what knowledge does he possess about it? This underscores the importance of states being better equipped to design the security framework for the establishment of security apparatus within their own jurisdiction.”
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