Politicians Warned against Using Thugs as Security Men during Elections

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September 10, 2014 – Recruiting thugs, arming and using them as security men during elections has been identified as major cause of insurgents in Nigeria.

Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Ademorin Kuye who made the revelation in Lagos called on politicians to henceforth desist from recruiting, arming and using thugs as security men, noting that these recruits turn out to be those who unleash violence on Nigerians most especially when they are not properly disarmed after the elections.

The commissioner who was speaking at a two day security summit put together by 57 Local governments and local council development areas in Lagos commended Nigerian soldiers currently at the fore front of battling insurgents in the North-East, challenging them to go ahead and reclaim areas deemed to have been annexed by members of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

“Our soldiers have done us proud”, he said called on every Nigerians to support the military in the quest to restore peace to the land.

In his speech, Chairman of all local government chairmen in Lagos State Hon. Akeem Suliamon called on the Federal Government to consider a multi-level policing that would allow both the states and local governments to be involved in actual policing of the country, adding that such multi-level policing will restore peace to the land.

“I strongly believe that state and Local Government police will come up with lasting solutions to insecurity in the country and there is no need for doubts, while the people suffer. Nigerians are now simply on the edge. Our people now suspect the worst and expect the worst because of the several killings and bombings in the country with the government at the center hardly able to do much about the problem.

“The security strategy, therefore, is for State and Local Government police to be taken into consideration and given full support so that they would be able to manage criminality and tackle the problem of insecurity”, he said, adding that local police will be able to reach everywhere in a given state better than federal police from other parts of the country and that it will also allow for more communication network between the police and the community.

Suliamon who was speaking on the subject, ‘Security Strategies, grassroots awareness and information management for key functionaries and stakeholders in Lagos State’ emphasized the need to entrench equity, fairness and justice in relationships at personal, inter-governmental and societal levels adding that the absence of social justice is nothing but invitation to chaos and violence, which threatens national security.

He called for mutual respect for one another regardless of religious, ethnic and cultural differences as a way to engender peace, unity and harmony.

“We should institutionalize policies and programmes that foster national integration and citizenship, and avoid pitfalls that undermine our unity and patriotism as Nigerians”, he said.

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