Former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has called on the Federal Government to remove policing from Nigeria’s Exclusive Legislative List and place it on the Concurrent List. He said decentralising security would empower states and local governments to respond faster and more effectively to local threats.
In a statement, the lawyer argued that insecurity is largely a local issue and should not be over-centralised in Abuja. According to him, the belief that the President must directly handle security in every community has encouraged politicking and weakened real solutions.
Obono-Obla cited Cross River State as a model, noting that kidnapping, once rampant in Calabar, drastically reduced after the state invested in security infrastructure and appointed a retired military officer as Security Adviser. He urged other states, including Edo, to adopt similar strategies rather than relying solely on federal intervention.
He stressed that true federalism demands that states take ownership of their security challenges to restore safety nationwide.
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