Amid the renewed insecurity in Nigeria, former Director General of the voice of Nigeria, VON, Osita Okechukwu, on Monday said advised President Bola Tinubu to urgently establish a Special Police Constabulary Unit, SPCU, “instead of just dumping 30,000 men into a rudderless police force”.

Okechukwu said it is more meaningful to inject 30,000 men into the Special Police Constabulary Units, as expressly stated in Sections 105 -109 of the Nigeria Police Act 2020.

The founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, gave the advice while addressing journalists in Abuja.

Okechukwu also noted that President Donald Trump of the United States had woken Nigerians up from slumber.

He said: “The immediate handgun is the urgent convocation of SPCU, to be recruited in line with federal character principle to reflect local conditions, well trained and equipped with sophisticated arsenal to contain kidnappers, terrorists and insurgents, because the recruits know their local terrain better.”

Okechukwu cautioned that the Special Constabulary Police Units nationwide should be shared responsibility of the federal, state and local governments, jointly funded and recruited from indigenes of the given state made up largely by the community vigilantes.

He said the SPCU should be funded directly from the Federal Account Allocation Commission, FAAC, with specific deductions from federal, state and local governments allocations.

“Since our governors/emperors in bipartisan manner had failed to establish state police, in good conscience it is more altruistic for Mr President to convoke SPCU urgently to contain palpable local security which had regrettably closed schools nationwide,” he said.

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