Former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Professor Olufemi Mimiko of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, have attributed insecurity to the bad constitution and shrinking economy.
The duo spoke at the maiden edition of Guest Platform organized by the Osun Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Osogbo, Wednesday.
Oyinlola who was the Chairman of the occasion, expressed displeasure over the state of nation, noting that nobody is sleeping in Nigeria today.
He maintained that the present constitution which allow Inspector General of Police and other security agencies to be responsible to the president alone can not work.
He said, “Governors are called security officers of the state and they don’t have control over the security in their state.
“I’m not surprised that Governor Ortom is calling our president Fulani president. His body language really showed that.”
Also, speaking on “Appraisal of State of Security in Nigeria, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: The Way Forward,” Prof Mimiko attributed the complex governance structure to the rising case of insecurity in the country.
According to the Professor of Political Science, “many of Nigeria’s security challenges are largely consequent upon shrinking economic opportunities for a good number of the population; a convoluted governance structure; climate change; demonstrable leadership capacity gap; reification of identity politics; and mismanagement of diversity.
“Evidence abounds that the Nigerian stateis getting overwhelmed by its security challenge, signposted by some critical trends.
He noted that the extant patterns of insecurity in the country are nether products of external aggression nor deliberate and overt effort on the part of a foreign power to subvert Nigeria.
“They, therefore, do not fit into conventional threats to national security, conceived in theliterature as ‘the protection of the state against external aggression through economic, military, political and diplomatic means.’ Thus, what goes for security crisis in contemporary Nigeria is substantiallyinternally propelled.
“This is, however, not to discountenance the rapidity with which such challenges could expand in scope and depth, and snowball into credible threats to the nation’s overall spatial and existential integrity.”
