The Ondo State Government has again called on the Federal Government to accept the call for the establishment of state police in Nigeria.
Ondo state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Sir Charles Titiloye, who represented Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, made the call at the maiden edition of” 2022 Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ondo Branch, with a theme: “Insecurity and corruption as a challenge to Nigeria’s democracy.”
Sir Titiloye reiterated that since each state of the federation has a policy of her own would help in solving the persistent security challenge bedeviling Nigeria.
The AGF said, “the overwhelming national insecurity, attacks and sophisticated weapons used by terrorists and criminal elements in the country requires a prompt, efficient, decentralised and localised policing response.”
While speaking on : ‘The role of the court in electoral process and the time bomb of Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, 2022,’ a human right activist/ lawyer, Chief Femi Falana, SAN, said there was a need for judges and lawyers to save the judicial system of the country, stressing that judges and lawyers had vital roles to play in the sanitisation of the judicial system of the country.
Falana said, “We must now get to the stage where lawyers are referred to the disciplinary committee for discipline when it is obvious, particularly, the senior lawyers are trying to ridicule the profession. We must begin to deal with ourselves. Only a few judges up there have the confidence and courage to call a senior advocate to order. So, we must call ourselves to order in this country.
“We, as lawyers, have a duty to save our country. Criminals are apprehended every day by the police. The ministry of justice, I beg you, whenever a criminal suspect is paraded in Ondo, you must contact the Commissioner of Police to ask for the case file and then charge the person to court.”
