Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday lent his voice to the calls for the creation of state police in order to effectively address the reoccurring security crisis in the country.
He said the security situation in the country was beyond community policing.
He stated this while playing host to the national association of ex-local government chairmen, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta.
He said, “Our situation in Nigeria concern everyone, particularly, the case of terrorism. The case has gotten over the issue of community police. It is now State police. It is from that State Police that we can now be talking about community police.
“There is also the need to strengthen the traditional system and the local government administration, which I prepared during the popular Murtala/Obasanjo administration, because I believe that there is a need to enable that tier of government to work truly as a local government. They have their own Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.
“They were working and they were very visible, building and managing roads, looking into education, health, local administration, agriculture, but they were all gone.”
