Buhari govt to promote local policing, says Osinbajo

The Vice President- elect Prof Yemi Osibanjo yesterday gave strong indications that their administration will promote local or community policing.

Speaking at the Platform  Abuja organized by the Covenant Church, Prof. Osinbajo lamented that “everybody gets away with criminality in Nigeria and I think there is a need for us to rejig the system such that it begins to work. This is an area of great passion for me,  particularly reforms and administration of justice.”

Osinbajo said the police  are ineffective and hampered from carrying out their duties.

According to him, “they are hampered structurally and by the fact that they are not well equipped and resourced as they should be but the structural question is the major one. We know that a country of this size needs some form of community policing.

“The suggestion that we have made is state policing, but that requires constitutional amendment, but we need to have local policing because criminality is always local. We need to have police officers who understand the local language. If you don’t understand the language and you are a policeman, even when criminals are conspiring against you, you will not even know so there is a logical need to have community policing of one sort or the other.”

The incoming government of Gen Mohammadu Buhari, the Vice President-elect said will prioritize funds for small businesses instead of the current approach of intervention funding.

He noted that  “prioritizing funds for small businesses is very important. We have to look at a whole spectrum rather than narrowing it down to interventionist funds.”

Meanwhile, Prof. Osinbajo has attributed his emergence as the Vice President-elect to a prophecy by the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye.

He made the revelation yesterday during the monthly Holy Ghost service of the RCCG at the Redemption Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Osinbajo expressed his gratitude to God for sparing his life during the campaign  and for making him and Gen Buhari victorious at the poll.