Ebere Anosike

Engineer, technical assurance, project/skills mgt expert. Advocate for personal improvement & good governance. Author, #SharpenYourBrand (available on Amazon).

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

State Police Creation & Matters Arising

The present security challenges and morbid corruption in our Police clearly pt to urgent need to reform policing architecture in Nigeria. We can no longer ignore this reality that it has failed; it’s long overdue.

In creating State Police, we must address the clear risk of abuse by the Executive, by ensuring that Governors do not control the State Police.

Police in each state should not report to the guv, but should report to Office of Attorney-General, which must be made independent of the Executive, and funded from 1st-line charge, just like the judiciary.

Above means we need to 1st decouple Office of AG from Justice Ministry, at both State & Federal levels, as present combined office is occupied by a political appointee of the Executive which often uses it to witch-hunt opposition and ignore atrocities by govt officials. See attachment for different mandates of AG & Justice Ministry.

In addition to the above, additional measures should be adopted:

1⃣ The HoA, not Guv, should have powers to appoint or remove the CP as well as the AG, just like position of Chief Judge, though with a slight modification.

2⃣ A state Police Service Commission should be established in each state, with tenured members appointed by HoA following recommendations by the Executive, who cannot subsequently remove them.

3⃣ A joint panel of Heads of Judiciary, Justice Ministry, and PSC should screen & recommend 3 top candidates for CP job, which Executive can propose to HoA to vote on.

4⃣ Present Zonal Police Commands should be scrapped. In lieu, the remainder of the present Federal Police should be kept to act like FBI in the USA with branches in the regions to support inter-state ops.

5⃣ In case of FCT Police, Senate will play the role of Parliament that will approve. The present HoR is too crowded and characterized by uneven representation of the states.

6⃣ AG Office to which CP reports should deploy judicial officers to each Police Unit (stations, area, and state commands) to support police ops and reduce illegal detentions & extrajudicial activities.

7⃣ Office of AG should supervise electoral and anti-crime agencies. Most anti-crime agencies in Nigeria, esp. EFCC, readily turn blind eye to corruption by govt officials linked to the ruling party and, are thus, not truly independent. On the electoral side, most elections conducted by State Independent Electoral Commissions are shams.

8⃣ Tenures of heads of bureaus reporting to the AG (CP, EFCC, etc.) as well as the AG role itself should have tenure of say 6-8yrs, so that they can outlast the political regimes of both Executive & Parliament.

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[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@ofanajay @Femzyr1 Many young people today are so impatient and ungrateful. (some feel so entitled).

With how sore the economy now is almost everywhere, it takes just one blunder for a young person to ruin his future.

Margins of errors are now very, very slim.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

Brilliant piece!

It is focused development of human capital that will make Nigeria, esp the North, take off like a rocket.

Unfortunately, only one in our crowded political space seems to understand meaning of HDI & how to achieve MDG goals. Sadly, when he speaks from experience, haters & bigots would say he's denigrating the North. Yet, the truth is staring us right in the face.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@OmegaXDreams The man sounds like an idiot.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

State Police is needed now, much more than ever.

Pls use your wealth of experience, as Senator & survivor of hounding by an abusive guv, to come up with suggestions on how to make State Police work.

When are you going to start adding value to this country besides sharing portable radio sets to ahmajirins?

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

All Nigerians, irrespective of ethnicity, need a better country. Good governance should never be about securing the interest of any single ethnic group, perhaps, at the expense of others. If it were, Yorubas would be cheering for Agbado Failure United Tinubu.

You need to get off this your ethnic bigoted sh*t-horse that clutches onto Atiku's corrupt moss flowing downhill.

Since PO left ADC, you're fast degenerating into a bittered soul, like that Professor in Anambra.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

Nobody said any reforms would be a walk in the park...

If a man is broke, it makes sense for him to challenge every expenditure against visible & clear set of mission, track every expenditure, cut waste, and block leakages.

One thing is to be corrupt, but being broke, wasteful, and also corrupt is a disaster.

Is Atiku hoping to fund free education thru borrowing or more taxation? Remember, taxing businesses to death would lead to more unemployment and more tax burden on citizens already traumatized by high inflation leads to more abject poverty.

And mind you, the 1st stage in waste cutting might not be to fire govt workers, but looking at what govt embarks upon, e.g. jamboree trips, white elephant projects, buying yacht & jetplanes.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

Revenue + Loans = Valuable_projs + Loan_servicing + Waste + Corruption.

With more loans and even higher revenue from increased taxation, increase in loan servicing and sustained/higher corruption & waste will undermine govt's ability to do improve the lives of Nigerians.

To do more valuable projects w/o resorting to needless borrowing, we must reduce waste & try eliminating corruption.

I am neither an economist, nor do I want to oversimplify issues, but this is simply what PO has been preaching - that we can do more if we eliminate wastages and cut the cost of governance.

A morbidly corrupt Atiku promising free education, with no intent to block leakages must be a magician.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

Looks like you just woke up from slumber...

At some time in SE, there were GSAs, Fulani Bandits, IPOB/ESN (which claimed its obj was the keep SE forests safe from Fulani bandits), and then Unknown Gunmen (UGM). It was Nigerian govt that came up with that term.

UGM (remember bragging by one pig-fat NigerDelta Militant on national Tv - when he went to "greet" Tinubu in Aso Rock upon his swearing in) were mercenaries contracted by regime to conduct false flag ops in SE and blame it on IPOB/ESN to justify labeling the latter a terrorist organization.

UGM typically could wear any attire it wanted (any choice GSA or IPOB/ESN), or plant Biafran insignia at crime scenes after conducting ops.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@honest30bgfan_ @Ardizorsprotege Wike is like a demon, who derives pleasure from trying to play God. What I don’t is why Almighty is keeping him alive to have more chances to ridicule Nigerians.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@victoreulaiq @Spearhead_Af And why the stooge in Nigeria that suffers epileptic power supply [thru-put capacity of <5GW] is helping France to undermine its AES neighbours seeking true independence, and also slowing handing over its financial sovereignty to France under suspicious tax administration deal?

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@Aiwobe @RCCG_PR @Iyoaiye_ Here below is evidence of him protesting against GEJ on insecurity. Is it so hard for him to also call out Tinubu?

Stop getting yourself confused with prophesy prayer where money most likely changed hands.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@OfficialDSSNG Kids are languishing in gruesome detention in Nigeria but you squander your time revisiting a watchlist of military era that’s nearly 3 decades old.

Are you not entertained?

What else is the definition of ne’er-do-well?

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@yabaleftonline Sometimes…?

So, it was same pattern in Fayose’, Ekiti, as well as Kogi, Kwara, Zamfara. Katsina, etc., all ruled by APC.

Dumbasses everywhere…

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@pikaj007 @RCCG_PR PO doesn’t need their endorsement and won’t get it anyway because he won’t give cashivist evil bigoted men of God any shishi.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@pdYHWH @gabrielozor Why did he go all the back to hus village to write NECO? Nigerians are so uncaring?

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@onyiiduke @General_Somto This was why loudmouthed Ben Kalu, current HoR Dep Speaker made u-turn & abandoned gubernatorial ambition his evil masters had been nudging him onto.

He'ld have bn ganshing his teeth over losss of his HoR ticket, while mulling at loss against an Otti sure bet. What a lucky man!

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

@GazetteNGR Did Tinubu take over from a PDP president?

Or is this a veiled attack on Oyo State Governor who does not control even the Police in his state?

These people are either damn stupid or just blatantly evil.

[Ebere Anosike @NjaCoach]

Solution is not to always escalate wages to match inflation, but bringing down cost of living to make things more affordable for the masses and also spur job creation.

This seemingly innocuous tweet shows that Sowore has no clue about governance, although he strongly aspires to be President. Maybe, it is because he never held any political office let alone make economically impactful decisions affect multitude of people.

I keep saying that, if he is serious, he should join hands with PO/RMK genuine opposition team, and if they succeed, take up EFCC Czar post, from where he can champion much-needed anti-corruption fight.

In life, it's not just enough to have dreams, but appreciating where you can really make a tangible impact or add value.

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