A public affairs analyst, Mahmud Jega, has said that state police is not an instant solution to the insecurity challenge confronting Nigeria.
Jega said this on Friday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.
He stated that with Nigeria’s current security situation, state police will take a long time to make a mark in the fight against insecurity.
Jega argued that the military, which is better trained and armed than the police, is clearly unable to get hold of the situation.
“I think state police is not an instant solution. The way the situation has developed, if we establish state police, it will take a very long time before they will be able to make a mark on our fight against this criminality.
“So in the long run, state police will help, because there will be more familiarity and community involvement and also maybe a decentralized kind of response mechanism, but that will all take time.
“However, specifically about the recent of surge, especially in Borno State, you see what I was wondering, for Boko Haram to be able to move large bodies of insurgents to attack three military Forward Operating Bases, more or less simultaneously overrun them and even killed the Commanding Officers, it suggests that there was total failure of intelligence,” he said.
