..Faults Umaru Diko over zoning.
The president of Obigbo, a pan Igbo Socio Cultural and Political Organization Mr. Charles Ahize has advocated for the training of thirty percent of the Nigeria Police Force for the purpose of stemming the increasing trend of kidnapping in the country.
Speaking with airport reporters at Ikeja on his return from Abuja, Mr. Ahize said the present crop of the Police force lacked the techniques of arresting kidnappers due to poor funding and inadequate training.
According to the Obigbo Chieftain “The Nigeria Police has not been funded and trained actually on how to track kidnappers. The Nigerian Police should be well funded and get 30 percent of the force trained overseas for surveillance and communications”
Ahize was of the view that there was no kidnapping incident without the knowledge of the security operatives. While describing kidnapping as madness, the Obigbo chieftain traced the origin of kidnapping to what he called the handwork of die hard politicians that engaged the jobless youths in political thuggery by buying arms for them during elections only to dump them after achieving their political gains.
Ahize urged the government to as a matter of urgency contain the trend as it might likely filter into other areas describing it as a calculated attempt by some people to distablise the government.
On the zoning of the presidency, Ahize said the mistake was made in the past when former vice president Alex Ekwueme called for the zoning to be enshrined in the constitution but was rejected by Alhaji Umaru Diko at the constitutional conference in 1995.
According to the Chieftain of Obigbo, today, it is not haunting Ekwueme or Diko but it is haunting democracy and the entire Nigeria.
Describing defection from one party to another as one on the lapses in the country’s constitution, Ahize said that portion called for urgent amendment adding that Nigeria will stabilized in 2011 after a credible poll.
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