You highlighted the core issue that has giving rise to the agitation for separatist movement in Nigeria, largely, because the North has presented itself as enemy of progress while the South-West has repeatedly presented itself as insincere in matters of national interest, it appears that only South-East in particular is the lone voice in the “wilderness” who has consistently spoken out on the need for the nation to address issues that can promote peace and harmony, such as devolution of power, decentralization of power, regional autonomy and including state or regional police force, giving each region a space to breath, a space to dream, and maintain its unique identity in a secured and happy Nigerian nationhood, it is the failure of the North and the hypocrisy of South-West that has plunged Nigeria into ethnic warfare and near collapse of the Nigerian project, a Nigeria that has become a grave yard and a nightmare for millions of its citizens and where millions of citizens feel like Palestinians in occupied Gaza and West bank, or living under Apartheid of former South-African Government.

As Mr Armsfree Ajanaku rightly pointed, “The 2014 Confab reached a very wise conclusion, when it decided that for “any state that requires it, there shall be a State Police at the State level to be established, funded and controlled by the State.” The Confab went a step further to present a veritable platform for effectively securing Nigeria, by deciding that “State Law may also provide for Community Policing.”

But under APC government, which is dominated by most Yorubas, and who in the past has been the most vocal advocate of “True Federalism” but since assuming power, their preoccupation is now how to loot and share the national cake, “True Federalism” has suddenly died of a cardiac arrest and to be remembered no more until when the Yorubas no longer feel relevant in power or feel “marginalized” then all the Yoruba traditional council rulers, there politicians, Tinubus, Wole Sonyika, and Governors will again begin to beat the drum of “true Federalism” how can Nigeria move forward with such an insincere and hypothetical people.

As Mr. Ajanaku posited,
“If Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state had a state police at his command on the day the herdsmen unleashed terror in Ukpabi Nimbo community, instead of helplessly shedding tears, he would have ordered his Police helmsman to go after the attackers. In fact, the head of a state run police, set up for the sole purpose of securing Enugu, would have had his ears to the ground to pick intelligence about the impending attack. Instead, what Nigerians saw was a distracted Commissioner of Police getting orders from Abuja, and trying at all cost to be in the good books of some ogas in the nation’s capital. This kind of divided allegiance hobbles the business of fighting crime and securing lives and property.”

Nigeria is the only nation in the world with its size and complexities that has such a centralized police force, I have often find it amazing and wonder why State Governors are called ” Chief-Executive Officer” of the their states. What a fancy word with no real power of execution. How can an Executive Governor of a State with more than a Million lives to protect , voted by the people of its State to protect them, in a constitutional democracy, still lack the constitutional authority to command an ordinary civil police force to maintain civil order and peace? It defies common sense and logic. And do we call that democracy? So when people call Nigeria a ZOO, sorry for the insult, we should first look into the mirror before castigating then, “Which Way Nigeria” is the question we are asking, The old and paralyzing way, or a change to a new course of doing business and living our lives to our fullest potential, in a Peaceful, Equitable and Just Society were “ALL LIVES MATTERS”

Has the agitators of “true Federalism” all Perished with the 2015 election victory of APC, or is the APC the “True Federalism they were cleverly selling to Nigerians? No human last forever, and so Buhari has come and Buhari will go, and after that what? We can’t build or sustain a society by building our hope and dreams upon a perishable product such as a human, we now again ask, AFTER BUHARI, WHAT COMES NEXT? If we are wise to answer that question we will be wiser in building an INSTITUTION AND NOT IN MAKING OF A MAN THAT PERISHES WITH TIME, AND DIES WITH ITS DREAM. GOD SAVE NIGERIA. HAPPY SUNDAY