Achuzie Backs Call For State Police

Retired Col. Joe Achuzie, and President-General of
Igbozurume, an Igbo socio-political organisation, has thrown his weight behind
the call for the establishment of state police to effectively check security
challenges of the country.

Achuzie said in Aba on Monday said that state police had
become imperative in the present state of insurgency that had caused serious
damage to the country’s image and economy.

“ For somebody to say that Nigeria is not ripe for state
police, is it when Nigeria is burgled, all people killed or kidnapped before
you realise the necessity for the community policing? “So, as far as I am
concerned no sensible person that loves his community, state and so on will say
that time is not ripe for local and state policing,’’ he said.

According to him, bringing people other than policing in
their state of origin is not solving the security situation in the country.

“How can you bring a Yoruba man into Abia to come and
police, who does he know in Abia, have you considered the time it will take him
to become friendly with Abians so as to be able to know who lives in the next
house.

“First language barrier, secondly tradition and custom, it
requires boys in an area to know who is who, recruit able bodied citizens and
train them in the art of policing, he knows among his group who is capable of
doing what. “These are genesis necessary for state and community policing,’’
Ikemba Ahamba said.

Achuzie, also known as “People’s General’’ blamed the
Nigeria porous security system for the success achieved by insurgents in the
killing of many innocent citizens in the northern part of the country.

“You see, just as we said that a people deserved the type of
leadership they want, so also a people deserved the type of security they put
in place.

“ All I have for the issue of insurgency is sympathy for
those that are losing their lives in the north, the insurgents are not spirit,
they are human beings , they didn’t come together by accident, they are
packaged,’’ Achuzie said.