Boko Haram: Tambuwal calls on FG to reconsider State Police

Aminu Tambuwal

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday called on the Federal Government to strengthen its fight against the Boko Haram sect.
He said if the outlawed group had resolved not to allow Nigerians live in peace, the government must not let them sleep too.
Tambuwal opined that it might be time to revisit the clamour for state police.
In a speech entitled, “One massacre too many”, Tambuwal recalled with pain, the February 25 massacre of 59 students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, by the sect. He said the situation required a change of tactics by security agencies.
The speaker described February 25 as a “day that will live in infamy in the history of this nation.”
Tambuwal spoke further, “When innocent, harmless and defenceless women and children become the targets of these heartless murderous bandits; when the lives of sleeping children are so callously snuffed out, it becomes clear that these agents of terror have murdered sleep and they henceforth deserve none.
“Whatever grievances the terrorists harbour against the government of Nigeria, Nigeria’s innocent children have nothing to do with it. Nigeria’s children bear no responsibility for either policy making or policy implementation in Nigeria.
“Whatever message the terrorists set out to send to the Nigerian government has been drowned out by the cries for justice by the blood of these innocent martyrs.
“Today is not a day to apportion blames. It is a day for the expression of our sense of personal and national losses. But it is also a day for us to look for concrete solutions.”
He added, “What about integrating local security structures into the regular security windows of the Nigerian Police Force with the federal, state and local governments supporting them with necessary resources?
“ Is it perhaps time for us to revisit the idea of State Police?
“How do we develop an institutional framework for securing the land through a neighbourhood audit, where a tab is kept on every member and every housing structure whether completed or uncompleted?”

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