A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Monday Ubani, has submitted that the best way to tackle insecurity in Nigeria is to have a functional local government administration.
He added that the idea of creating a state police outfit must also be allowed to see the light of day.
According to Ubani, while he agrees that some state governors may have a tendency to abuse state police structures under their watch, legal frameworks must be built into the establishment to prevent such abuse.
Naijaonpoint reports that Ubani made the submissions as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.
He stressed that insecurity can only be effectively addressed at the local level.
He said, “People keep talking about rejigging the (security) architecture, allowing state police and all that – how can we be arguing forth and back about that? I agree that the issue of abuse may come in because some of the governors are not mentally okay when you give them power and you have to be careful with that.
“And that is why we said in the legal framework, we must put it in a manner that it will avoid abuse. If there is any likelihood of abuse then the federal police will come in. You can never have security in Nigeria if Nigerians do not allow local government administration to operate effectively.”
Ubani added that some highly placed persons are benefitting from the security lapses in Nigeria, and that is why it has been difficult to curb the challenges.
“If we properly police our local governments, tell me where you will begin to hear about insecurity, where is it going to come from?
“They know what to do but they are benefitting from the lapses, they are benefitting from the rot that is going on and that is why they don’t want to address it,” he said.
The senior lawyer also added his voice to the calls for a constitutional conference to draft a new constitution rather than continuing with constant amendments to the 1999 constitution.
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