Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has announced that Governors in the South-West region will adopt ways to get arms to defend their people, following the worsening security situation in the country.
The Governor, who is also the Chairman of the South-West Governors Forum, vowed that the states will confront bandits and herdsmen terrorising their forest reserves.
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Speaking during the Politics Today programme on Channels Television on Tuesday, July 5, the governor said that the people of the South-West are brave people who would fight the terrorists back into the forest.
He, however, decried a situation where criminals are left to acquire illegal weapons, while Nigerians are dispossessed of their legally acquired weapons.
The Governor noted;
We cannot continue like this any longer. The governors will adopt ways of defending their people.
If the worsening security situation is to be controlled, Nigeria must begin to seriously consider the issue of state police, because that is the only way out of this insecurity mess in Nigeria.
We know the limitations of our security agencies, which are caused by our perverted federalism.
We cannot secure Nigeria with a central police command. We need to have state police. A situation where one commander sits in Abuja to give orders to the rest of the country is no longer fashionable now.
The governor charged the people of Ondo State to, henceforth, confront the criminals when they attack them, instead of running into their homes.
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Akeredolu further explained;
We can’t run away from them. We must be prepared to confront the challenge. Our people cannot afford to lay back as if we are lazy.
We are not lazy; we are indomitable. How we are going to confront the criminals is not what we shall discuss in public, but how we are going to do it is nobody’s business.
