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The proposal to create state police and if possible local government police is consistent with the principle of true federalism and decentralization of powers.

The proposal to create state police and if possible local government police is consistent with the principle of true federalism and decentralization of powers. The arrangement would enable the states to effectively maintain law and order especially during emergencies. Besides the Nigeria Police is ill-equipped and deficient that it cannot ensure safety of citizens and

You will be alarmed at the amount of money so far allocated to the Nigeria Police Force in the last twenty-five years. 

The news came to me as a shock because despite his very advanced age he was blessed with an amazing robust health, which always made us forget how long he has been with us. As you recall, we commenced and heralded his centenary year just a few weeks ago with an elaborate ceremony involving all Asaba people as though it were indeed his actual birthday.

Nothing I have written seeks to justify the January coup. I wish it never took place. I wish the hotheaded young ‘revolutionaries’ had reflected on their line of action or consulted saner heads. The deaths of our leaders that day need not have happened. I wish the British did not bequeath a skewered Nigeria to us upon independence, and the ineptitude of our politicians only worsened things.