By Moses Adeniyi
As the push for restructuring keeps gathering cloud, the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) has insisted that devolution of power, giving structure for state policing is the only pragmatic solution to security challenges in Nigeria.
In a statement on Monday, the Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, said the forum would continue to demand the devolution of powers to the States.
The Governor described devolution of powers as the surest path to progress on the security issue.
“We, on our part at the Southern Governors’ Forum, have continued to reiterate the fact of the incongruity inherent in an arrangement which purports to be federal, nominally, but whose observances stand at variance with the best practices espoused by climes considered advanced and progressing, amenable to nuances and adaptations which reflect and accommodate the yearnings for inclusion of the component units,” the statement reads.
“We will continue to insist on the creation of state police as the only logical and pragmatic solution to the pervasive problem of insecurity in the land.
“In addition to this, we shall not fail to renew the call for the adoption of policies geared towards real devolution of powers to the federating units indeed.
“This is the surest path to peace and progress,” the statement concluded.
The call for restructuring to address critical problems of the Country, among which is insecurity, has been reverberating more recently, though the Federal Government has displayed some sort of hostilities to same.