I Don’t Subscribe To Removal Of Security Votes – Don

Former Head, Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Aloysius Okolie, says irrespective of the controversy surrounding security votes, he will not subscribe to its stoppage.
Okolie, told our source in Nsukka yesterday, that though some governors misused it, its removal would increase security challenges in the country.
“Security votes help governors to handle some security situations in their states before they get out of hand.
“As the chief security officers in their various states, on daily basis they receive security reports from law enforcement agencies and some of these reports, if not acted upon immediately, may escalate to dangerous dimensions.
“It’s from their security votes, they use in tackling these security challenges thereby nipping such security threats in the bud,” he said.
On the issue that security votes are unconstitutional and not captured in annual budgets, he noted that even in developed countries, not everything is enshrined in the constitution.
“Is not everything that will be in the constitution, that’s why some approved traditions and conventions are part of country’s constitution, “he said.
The don said that, what Nigerians should preoccupy themselves with, should be on how to elect qualified and patriotic  leaders, who would govern the people  with the fear of God as well as make judicious use of security votes given to them.