Former Deputy National Chairman of he People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George has cried out over the recent rise in the security situation in the country, saying that it has gone beyond control.
He noted that the current state of affairs goes beyond politics, even if he gave President Bola Tinubu the duty of addressing the concerning level of insecurity in the nation.
Reacting to recent killings in the country especially in Plateau State, the PDP leader said it it time for state police.
His words, “The state of our nation has been completely in a shambolic situation, it is perpetual despair and despondency. There is hunger in the land and there is anger in the land; the insecurity has gone beyond control.
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“So, when you look at all those things; we are all Nigerians and I listened to his (Tinubu) New Year speech and I also listened to what Chief Osoba said, this is not the time to play politics, it is our nation.
“He (Tinubu) has a hell of a job to do and I have listened to him. He has these eight objectives for the year, national defence, internal security, and job creation; the man who left who was my oga did a woeful job, he did not do well at all; they belong to the same party.
“So, we all Nigerians will give him a chance, let us see how he is going to handle it. Bola Tinubu, God will guide him – he is in the hottest seat in the whole of Africa today because for every 10 Africans 6 are Nigerians, brilliant people. So nobody can pull any wool over our eyes, I pray for him, I pray for our country.”
On what the President should to tackle the menace, he said, “You need equipment, you need surveillance. The technology available now was not available at our time. So, it will be a combination of modern technology; put cameras all over like they do here in England. You don’t have to be physically there; you monitor from your control room things that are happening.”
Reiterating the need for state police, he said, “We need every state to have its police on the ground, whatever it is going to cost us because police work is a communal work, it means you will employ people from that community to do the police work.”