Pastor Tunde Bakare who serves as Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly known as The Latter Rain Assembly), has said that the country cannot be fixed without revisiting the pack that brought the country together in 1914.
The former convener of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, while speaking during a church service in Lagos, added his voice to the Amotekun debate saying the confusion arising from the creation of Amotekun which according to popular argument, is justified by the existence of "Sharia police or Hisbah" in the North, shows clearly that something is fundamentally wrong with the nation's foundation.
He said, “The proponents of Amotekun, particularly in the South, justify the move by referencing the Sharia police or Hisbah as a northern version of regional policing. The opponents, on the other hand, particularly from the North, express fears of possible regional political motivations.
“These are clear indications that the issues we swept under the carpet in past decades are still staring us in the face. We cannot continue to hide under the umbrella of one finger. It is time to address the underlying issues of nationhood and reset Nigeria on the path to predictable progress.
“The way forward for these recurring questions of federalism, including that of regional or state policing is to travel downwards to revisit the constitutional foundations while looking upwards with unwavering faith in our divinely ordained destiny as one strong, united nation, with a strong federal government and strong federating units; a nation in which government as an entity is close enough to serve the people and strong enough to protect them.
“We must not lose sight of the main issue in the Operation Amotekun debate, which is that the current mono-level security architecture has proved inadequate to combat the security challenges that confront not just the South-West but every zone in our nation. Security challenges such as kidnapping, herdsmen attacks, cattle rustling, terrorism and the porosity of our borders.”
Bakare also called on the Buhari administration to tackle the issue of youth unemployment in the country saying "youth joblessness is the breeding ground for the various forms of crime that have bedevilled our land."
