There are many items in the exclusive list which are controlled by the Federal Government which are also not properly handled. Do you think it would be fair for the Federal Government to drop some of those items or share them with the states?
Go to developed countries, you have all kinds of levels at which you administer law and order. The FBI is there in the United States, but each state has its own police force. Even cities have their own police departments. Security is something that is next door to you. And you don’t expect orders from above in Abuja when you are dealing with a small skirmish in my village at Rumuokoro. So, these issues that are placed in the exclusive list need not all be there.
Somebody should be punished, somebody must be made to answer, somebody must be held accountable, and it is not difficult to know how to trace the source of the adulterated fuel that now got into our filling stations nationwide. The position is such that we are having fuel queues all over the place. Man hours are being lost; people’s vehicles are being damaged because of the adulterated fuel.
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities are currently on strike over what they termed Federal Government’s failure to implement the agreement it had with ASUU. What do you think should be done to assuage the feelings of the union?