We will face down conflict entrepreneurs and enemies of our people, By Rotimi Akeredolu

… in Nigeria, a country under threat of brazen conflict entrepreneurs and armed, audacious non-state actors, the incontestable authority of the state must be imposed. State security outfits backed by law, whether in the Western Nigeria, Katsina, Borno, Benue or any Northern state, must have access to the same sophisticated weapons that the marauders have. Anything else is a contradiction in terms.

The Amotekun Corps must be given the tools to carry out its now pivotal, indispensable duties. For centuries, we have been admonished that “a bad workman blames his tools,” yet in the case of Amotekun Corps the workman is expected to function without good tools. It is not only absurd, but also a dereliction of duty and a cause of disaffection. Dissatisfaction is induced by a feeling of unfairness. The crises in the conventional wisdom is life-threatening and nationwide.

Without providing the sub-national security forces to be a counter-balancing force, we have a crisis which strikes at the heart of the conception and definition of the state itself. It is not just the definition of the state, the state itself is under existential threat. The modern state is defined by treaties. The conception of the modern state beatified by these treaties gives it “an incontestable monopoly of the means of violence, intimidation and coercion.

For this reason, in Nigeria, a country under threat of brazen conflict entrepreneurs and armed, audacious non-state actors, the incontestable authority of the state must be imposed. State security outfits backed by law, whether in the Western Nigeria, Katsina, Borno, Benue or any Northern state,to the same sophisticated weapons that the marauders have. Anything else is a contradiction in terms.

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