A former Minister of State for the FCT, Mr Solomon Ewuga, on Sunday said that community policing was the best solution to the security challenges facing the nation.
Ewuga made the statement in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
He argued that community policing remained the best system that would address the current security problem in the country.
“If I, in anyway, give support to our security conduct, I will also be stabbing myself because, I know that the security challenges we have in Nigeria are enormous.
“But, we need to go back to the basics and the first thing we have to do, is to go back to community policing.
“In those days, when we came back home for holidays, police had to record our arrival and when we were about to depart they would also record our departure in order to check our movements.
“And that was in our own home because, as far as the police were concerned, we were new people in that environment.”
The CPC chieftain said that community policing was more effective in addressing the security challenges, adding, “Stakeholders within the community must be involved in the act of policing.
“Village heads must be involved and local communities must be involved because, the criminals live with the people.
“And it is a matter of fact that these criminals are always migrating from one community to the other.
“It is clear that when you are not interested in the way people live or how people secure themselves and their movements, it can be dangerous.”
According to him, the police have been the formal body in charge of policing while individuals too have to be involved in their security.
“This is because, the law itself provides for citizens to be part and parcel of securing their environment against armed robbery and kidnapping, among others.
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