Building optimism on the revival and speedy development of Nigeria is a daunting task that has gone beyond the ordinary. You can hardly blame a majority of our kinsmen, mostly in the Diaspora, who have concluded that it might be almost impossible for Nigeria to make headway out of its self-inflicted hindrances to joining the league of advancement in the contemporary and rapidly changing world. Why? It is clear that Nigeria, as a country, is a complicated project.
I had thought, at least until now, that Nigerians have all agreed that the escalation of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other allied evils, especially in the second quarter of this year, requires an urgent and intentional approach to curtail. This assumption appears to have been basically pedestrian; most of us didn’t take into consideration the political nomenclature currently pervading the land.
That politicians say one thing for a veiled motive but basically never believe what they say, let alone expect another person to believe them, is a statement that best describes our current situation about state police and the much-fabled one-party state. The voices of the opposition political parties and some ethnic jingoists have been very strident against the creation of state police based on weak arguments.
