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President Bola Tinubu has returned\u00a0 afte about 18 days visit to France and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
The State House media office announced that the Air Force 001 aircraft, conveying the President touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Tinubu is also planning to meet with the service chiefs to discuss the spike in killings in Plateau and\u00a0 Benue states among other parts of the country.<\/p>\n
Tinubu is reportedly was concerned about the deplorable security situation and would immediately meet with the service chiefs and the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, to map the way forward.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile\u00a0the Presidency has faulted the state governors for their poor handling of the situation, the kilkings sre riding because\u00a0 tgry had not done enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThere are people who still believe, within the present framework of the security architecture of the state, that we can deal with insecurity if we understand what it takes to do that,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it take to do that? In every state, for example, there are the SSS, police, military, and paramilitary. Then, every state has the right to create a quasi-paramilitary outfit and get the support of the government to deal with legal issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, a governor who gets more than N2bn to N3bn as security vote can decide to take only N1bn to buy equipment such as drones, vehicles and everything that is needed to do surveillance and fight security.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat governor can give adequate infrastructure to help federal agents in their states\u2026because crime in Nigeria is so dynamic; we\u2019re hearing that the criminal elements even use drones. How can undemocratic elements use a sophisticated system of surveillance that the state does not have?<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin the framework of what we have now, governors can deploy this security vote in its proper context. Take, for example, you go to every local government and create a local government vigilante. Go to the wards. Just the same way in politics, we have the polling unit, the ward, and the local government.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you create that kind of system of vigilance and vanguard, some of the people might be there to provide intelligence. Some will be there to make sure that they serve at the front line in dealing with these insurgents, believe me, we will achieve substantially.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we have always fed this lame excuse where governors will say, \u2018I don\u2019t have the capacity to do anything because I\u2019m not the Chief Security Officer of my state,\u2019\u201d Bwala insisted.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he warned that state governors would be unable to sustain an entirely new police force since tgey find it difficult to pay salaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time you create a state police now, a governor who says he\u2019s struggling to pay salaries, you want to create another police system for him to pay them or to work with them free of charge?” he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you know what it means for a state to run a security outfit like a police system. It is no joke. Do we have the budget at the moment to sustain that?<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, I\u2019m not suggesting that we don\u2019t need it. But what I\u2019m saying is we don\u2019t have to wait for it before we can safeguard the lives and the properties of the people.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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