National Pivot
Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said the signs of the end of Nigeria is very clear, but said the Buhari administration still has the chance to avert the looming catastrophe by yielding to the demands of agitators in the country particularly, the demand to restructure the country.
Afenifere which made this known on Sunday as part of the resolutions of its Executive Council, after reviewing recent developments in the country, at its meeting held at the Lagos residence of its acting leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, said Nigeria may not survive beyond 2021 if the current government and National Assembly refuses to restructure it.
Issuing the statement through its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, the group also threw its weight behind the recent resolutions of Southern governors placing a total ban on open grazing and having state police established in the country.
The group demanded that implementation of restructuring towards achieving true Federalism must begin before the middle of next year.
On the stance of the Southern Governors Forum (SGF), Afenifere frowned at the disapproval being expressed by some Northern elements, whilst urging all Southern states to enact the same law expeditiously.
The group believes the immediate enforcement of the law would put an end to various vices that the act of open grazing was engendering, even as it
The group however, noted that despite governors being described as Chief Security Officers of their respective states, they still had no security agency that could be deployed to where crimes were being committed with arms. The group said this must change, demanding that state police, down to the level of local government, must become operational immediately.
“The governors are described as Chief Security Officers of their respective states, yet they have no security agency that can be deployed to where crimes are being committed with arms.
“Those of them who came up with some security apparatus like Amotekun are disempowered because they could not bear arms. And when they arrest suspected criminals, such suspects must be handed over to the police.
“As experiences have shown, once this is done, hardly do such cases go beyond the police. And the state security body has no control anymore since the police is a Federal agency who does not take order from the governor. This must change. State police, down to the level of local government, must become operational immediately,” the communiqué asserts.
This story first appeared in National Pivot
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