Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said the adoption of the proposed State Police was the way to go in meeting the security needs of the country.

While making a presentation at the opening of a two-day National Security Summit organized by the National Assembly in Abuja over the recent spate of killings and insecurity in the country, Osinbajo said every Nigerian was entitled to adequate security and that the security failures of the government were not deliberate.

He said: “For a country our size to meet the one policeman to 400 persons according to the UN prescribed ratio, we would require almost triple the number of our current police force. Far more funding for the military and security agencies is required.

“We cannot police a country the size of Nigeria centrally from Abuja. State police and other community policing methods are clearly the way to go.

“The nature of our security challenges are complex. Securing Nigeria’s over 900sq/km and its 180 million people requires far more men and materials than we have at the moment. It also requires a continual re-engineering of our security architecture and strategies. This has to be a dynamic process,” he added.

He also stated that no land will be seized or forcefully taken by the Federal Government to create ranches for grazing as some states have shown willingness to cooperate with the government to create commercial ranches or livestock production centres for commercial uses.