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The former Deputy senate president , senator Ike Ekweremadu has  said nigeria security  architecture is sketchy  and needs the  creation of  state police to  address the  security  challenges  facing the country .

The senator  representing  Enugu west Senatorial districts who was in Enugu  for the inauguration of the DSS training center he built in Awgu  and also the DSS office  same at Awgu, executed by Rep. Toby Okechukwu the lawmaker representing Anniri/Awgu/Orji River  Federal Constituency of the state decried the rising spate of killings and violence in the state 

 stating  that  “the Security Challenges in the country is already enormous and   Enugu State cannot afford to engage  in further acts of violence since the  security apparatus of the state is already over stretched”

Adding that  if there be  a state police, all the security  challenges  will be over  and there will be peace, there will be development,  employments  in the country. 

According to him,  every state doesn’t really need to start the state police at once, “those  who can start,  let them start then the federal govt can help those who can not do that to do  that, in that  way, everywhere  will have sufficient  security  in Nigeria.  And once we do that, there will be peace, there will be development,  employments then all this challenges  we are having will be over” He stated.

“The security  architecture in Nigeria is sketchy,  it has not been able to cover the entire space that is why we have so many on governs spaces in Nigeria and that why some of us are  insisting on state police.

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“What we have at the national level from the armed forces, to the paramilitary, and  support agencies is certainly not enough to police a country  as wide as Nigeria with the number of people we have

“To ensure the total safety of lives and properties in any part of this country today, there is the need for state police because of the rising spate of insecurity in the country today” he said.

The lawmaker, therefore, urged the Federal Government to heed to the public demand for the creation of state police just like other countries  like Europe,  America , Asia who  discovered a long time ago and decentralized which  made a complex arrangements  of their security  sector.

“Until we resolve our security  challenge  here,nothing  will happen, no achievements, there will be no progress,  no peace and the earlier we realize this and begin to increase the security  arrangements we have in Nigeria, so that every home will be covered, every person will be covered  and every properties  will be covered , we will continue  to have problems”

 He also  called on government at all levels and the security agencies to be proactive in their approach to ending the escalating security challenges.

Speaking on the projects by his NASS counterpart, Ekweremadu  commended him for the successful completion of the DSS office at Awgu.

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“What we are witnessing today is the dividend of good representation,  democracy and this is commendable.

“The welfare and wellbeing of Nigerians is the primary responsibility and purpose of  governance” he stated.

Earlier, Okechukwu said he was passionate about providing dividend of democracy to his constituents.
He said he would continue to attract projects that would have direct impact on the lives of the people.

It can be recalled,  that southeast  leaders had also backed the creation of state police during their last meeting  in Enugu,  where they pleaded with national assembly  members  from south east to please  support the state creation  of state  police  on the  going constitutional  amendments