By Ayodele Oni
Former Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shakarau, has envisaged that as good as the proposal for state police is, its creation may aggravate political violence in states.
He has, therefore, advised the Federal Government against allowing the proposed state police to carry firearms and other dangerous weapons.
Shekarau warned that: “The operatives must not be allowed to carry firearms and other dangerous weapons.”
The former Kano Governor, while appearing on a Kano-based Arewa Radio, expressed his fear with the spate of lingering political violence across many states in the country adding that most of the atrocities were allegedly sponsored and promoted by politicians.
He advised that the decentralized police should be tailored around the model of the Kano State Hisbah Board, which was used to address cases of social vices during his tenure in office as a Governor of the State.
While commenting on the Federal government’s student loan policy, Shekarau said the conditions of the policy were too harsh for an average Nigerian student.
According to him, the students are expected to provide sureties with a certain unrealistic amount of deposits in their bank account.
He then stated that conditions among others will make it difficult for an overriding majority of Nigerian students to access the loan.
Shekarau, however, appealed to the Federal Government to review and expunge some of the harsh conditions in the bill to enable more Nigerian students to get access to the support.
