The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Thursday urged the Federal Government to revisit the demand for state police in Nigeria, IgbereTV reports
Akeredolu, who made the call when the new Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 17, Yunnus Mohammed Akeera, visited him at the Governor’s House in Akure, said Nigeria was in dire need of a workable strategy in dealing with the rising insecurity across the country.
He stressed that the Nigerian Police Force was understaffed and overstretched.
The present police system, according to him, was not good enough to secure the lives of Nigerians.
The governor has been unrelenting in his call for the establishment of state police as the ultimate solution to the country’s challenges.
His latest call came just 48 hours after members of the Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) attacked the Kuje correctional centre and freed hundreds of inmates in the facility
