By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
In order to tackle the current worsening insecurity in the country, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has again advocated creation of state police.
The former Lagos State governor also said more revenue should be allocated to the states to drive development.
Tinubu, whose address was read by Lagos State Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, at the 3rd Annual Abiola Ajimobi roundtable and 71st posthumous birthday of the late senator and former governor of Oyo State, said the states must also assume more responsibilities when the resources allocated to them increased.
Tinubu said, “Our system remains too centralised with too much power and money remaining within the federal might. We need to overhaul how revenues that are allocated between the states and the Federal Government.
“Also, the current relationship between the police and the people needs reform so that the police may help better answer the security challenges we now face.
“Abiola had been a proponent of state police for many years. The time for state police has come. In fact, it is overdue. This important change requires more funds in state hands, less in federal.”
Tinubu also said it was strange that states were not allowed to engage in power generation despite the paucity of electricity supply in the country.
He said, “States must be allowed to engage in power generation as long as their efforts are consistent with and do not undermine federal labors in this sector.
“If we begin these fundamental changes, then our states will become stronger, more able catalysts of economic development.”
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