A Peacebuilding think tank, Foundation for Peace Professionals also known as PeacePro has called on the federal government to immediately decentralize policing in Nigeria to curtail the spate of overwhelming violence that has consumed the centralized policing structure in the country.
PeacePro explained that, there’s nothing the current centralized policing structure can do to prevent the magnitude of organized violence in rural communities, adding that the federal government must now decentralize security or watch the country go up in flames.
“There’s no other options, we must decentralize policing or surrender to none state actors until we are eventually overwhelmed”
In a statement over the weekend in Ilorin, reacting to the unfortunate tragedy in Plateau State that has so far claimed over 200 lives, the executive director of PeacePro, Amb. Abdulrazaq Hamzat expressed reservation with federal government none proactive approach to issues of security in rural areas of the…