The
Senate Chief Whip and a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Professor Olusola Adeyeye, has criticized the Federal Government for its
failure to bring an end to the Herdsmen attacks across the country.
He
expressed his displeasure when he appeared as a guest on Channels
Television’s Sunday Politics while reacting to the recent herdsmen
attacks in Benue state and the claims of the Governor, Samuel Ortom,
that those behind the killings were known people.
Adeyeye
said: “Because of what you have just said that some of these people are
known – I cannot verify that but if that is true, then shame on the
Federal Government of Nigeria for not doing whatever it will take to
have arrested this tragedy by now.
“I say this knowing fully well
that I am also part of that government because my Party is in power,
because I am the Chief Whip of the Senate of Nigeria and I’m praying
that in the next few days, whatever it will take that this republic will
summon the courage and the wisdom to put a decisive end to this
nonsense”.
According to him, the recent attack brings to mind the
fact that “there will never be security again in Nigeria until we have
the courage to say there must be state police force.”
He stressed
that the reason for such lawlessness and rise in crime, borders on the
fact that states do not have an independent police. Adeyeye, also noted that for security to be maintained in any state, the local police system must be enforced.
“Any
state that does not want a state police is free not to want but any
governor who is the chief security officer of his state must have the
wherewithal to enforce security in his state.
“If Nigerian
Federalism must work, every unit of that federalism must have the means
by which they can maintain security – The Nigerian Military, the
Nigerian Police, they have probably done their best, but they have
failed woefully.
“We must go back to what we had at independence,
any region that did not want local police may not have it but any region
that wanted it could have it. We must go back to that again,” he
stressed.
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