The former president noted that the author believed that Nigeria, a federation, should not have unitary police establishment as people had argued that state police would be abused by governors.“For a federation, it is contrary to the ideal of the country because the unitary policing system is not close enough to the community where the police are supposed to be.
He said the author brought up strong arguments in support of state police as well as training and retraining of police officers, which he agreed with.Mr Obasanjo noted also that the author argued strongly against authorised and unauthorised deployment of police personnel to private guard duties leading to having many police officers in the security service of few individuals.
In his remarks, Ray Ekpu, publisher of the book recalled that the PSC was first created by the Independence Constitution of 1960. “Under the military, the PSC was chaired by the various Chiefs of Staff until it was abolished by Decree 5 of February 6, 1989 backdated to August 27, 1985.
Mr fault everything had opportunity to make Nig great he busy chasing personal interest like 3rd term, $16b power darkness, national library, ota farm, private refinery in São Tomé, bayelsa and benue massacre bola ige military plan crash etc. mr do or die politician father rigger
So people understand these things but decide to keep quiet and allow ignorance to drain the little peace in the country.
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