There should be police at all levels of govt – Duke

*Says centralised system has failed

Former Cross River state governor and presidential candidate of Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Donald Duke, has called for the establishment of state and local government police, saying Nigeria’s highly centralised security system cannot effectively confront terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes across the country.
He said the country must localise policing because effective security depended more on intelligence gathered within communities than on the deployment of armed personnel after crimes had occurred.
According to him, Nigeria has failed to substantially redesign its security architecture since the end of the Civil War ...