Dysfunctional federal system cause of insecurity — Obaseki
While identifying insecurity as one of the country’s biggest challenges, Obaseki blamed mismanagement of the nation’s economy for the worrisome trend. “We run a federation; we have three tiers of government – Federal, state and local governments. Why should security be exclusive to the federal level? What happened to the other two? Until we address that structural imbalance, we are not going to be able to deal with security at its core,” he said. Earlier, Orbih stressed the need for the region to have its own security network as a way to check insecurity and protect the people in th...