File: Chief Edwin Clark
A leader of the Niger Delta Edwin Clark has restated that restructuring is the only way to ensure security in Nigeria.
Clark noted this on Wednesday where he also stated that the centralized system in the country has made it hard to tackle the security issues.
“This is because the issue of security is local and we cannot have effective security cover when everything is done from the centre,” he told .
“A major ingredient of restructuring is state police and it is when we have this and other community policing options that we can have proper security.”
He added that “Restructuring will ensure that power devolves from the centre to the other federating units for effective governance.
“Why, for instance, would the Federal Government be involved in things like secondary education, health services, agriculture that are better handled by the states?
“The government at the centre, in an ideal federation, should only control areas like immigration, defence and maybe prison.
“Restructuring will ensure that resources are freed up at the centre for the development of those local things like agriculture, health and secondary education.”