The Federal Government needs to create templates that will make it easier for states to manage their own policing systems.
This is instead of the centralised policing system which had failed and can no longer work for a country of more two hundred million population.
President of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria, ICSAN, Gbenga Owokalade said the institute backed a decentralised policing system for proper grassroots security to reduce the tide of insecurity.
Owokalade, said this at the institute’s news briefing in Lagos, describing the nation’s insecurity challenges as overwhelming.
According to him, the state-owned policing system would adequately manage the country’s entire geographical locations and tackle the rising insecurity.
In his words, Nigeria is mature enough to have state policing and should be bold enough to allow states to have their own security apparatus if both government and the governed say the country was a federal structure which allows it to replicate structures at all levels.
According to him, what Nigerians need to do is to put in place governance structures and institutions that would keep the people working for the places in check.
He said this is very important to ensure that a repeat of the Owo massacre does not happen and to allow the nightlife economy which is dying because of insecurity to be revitalised.
Owokalade urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the Federal Government to speedily resolve their issues to address the negative impact of the ongoing strike action on the unengaged youthful population and the education sector.
According to him, the country is breeding a youth force that is not adequately engaged and may join the negative narrative already on ground.
He said there is a need to look at the future of the Nigerian child as both parties must make sacrifices to allow this issue to end for the sake of children and the sake of the nation.
On ASUU and the Federal Government Face Off:
ICSAN through its President urged ASUU and the Federal Government to go back to the drawing board and find a way out of the log jam the education sector has been plunged.
According to him, the Interest of the students should be taken seriously and paramount as far as the Institute is concerned.
On High Cost of Doing Business:
ICSAN President urged the Federal Government to take necessary measures through the Central Bank of Nigeria to help the private sector.
According to him, the environment of business must be made user friendly and supportive of SMEs in particular, saying Businesses are stressed by high inflation and our dilapidating infrastructure.
He said the institute’s interest in the economy has influenced its choice of public discuss and advocacy issues, saying for instance its Annual Public Lecture looked at the Country External Reserves while its Annual Conference would be examining the National Debt of the country.