Insecurity: Group Identifies Security Sector Decentralisation As Solution

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) says having a sincere security sector reform to create more decentralisation of the sector in the country is the solution to insecurity.
The Executive Director of the centre, Mr Auwal Musa, said this during a one-day media workshop on Defence Anti- corruption Reportage, Civic Space and Oversight at Amber Residence, Lagos State.
CISLAC in collaboration with Transparency International – Defence and Security Programme with support from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, organised the workshop.
Musa said the country could no longer sustain the common trend of operating a centralised security sector, especially within the police to properly tackle and eradicate banditry and terrorism.
“For example, if anything happens in a state, the state governor cannot call on the police to do anything except there is approval from the President.
“By that time, people will have been killed and property damaged so there is need for us to have a holistic national discussion and dialogue about security sector reform,” he said.
The Director opposed the idea of forming local militia adopted by some governors to fight insecurity, saying that creating such militia was unconstitutional and could have a negative outcome in future.