Retired Major General David Jemibewon, a former military governor of Oyo State and ex-Minister of Police Affairs, discusses his childhood, profession, ideals, interests, war experience and others with SIMON UTEBORI was born on July 20, 1940 in a place called Iyah-Gbedde in the Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. My parents had five children. I am the first child, followed by a set of twins – a boy and a girl. The boy died and the girl survived.
They were sources of good experience and I believe that I discharged the responsibility that was associated with those offices. However, one does not need to say certain things about oneself. But if one has the opportunity and one doesn’t say those things then, probably no one else will. I think I did well and succeeded. I was fair-minded and approached my responsibility seriously.
There is also Dupe Jemibewon. We started as friends before I became governor in Oyo State. She is still my wife. What do you think about the security initiative of the South-West governors, known as Operation Amotekun? The fact remains that we are not making progress in Nigeria and if we are to make meaningful progress, we need to do certain things differently from the ways we do them.I wrote a book some years ago when I left the army and in that book I advocated state police. The issue of state police is now a subject of national discourse. If one is capable of making law, one should be able to enforce it.
I pray Nigeria disintegrate in peace. Marriage is not by coercion and we don't pray for war
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