Abubakar Malami, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Usman BabaEbun-Olu Adegboruwa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, has mentioned that Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, mustn't have overtly confronted a Chief Superintendent of Police on the Magodo Section 2 Property space of the state due to constitutional limitations.
In line with the senior lawyer, the encounter between the governor and the police officer was a clarion name to the necessity for restructuring and state policing.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the CSP, Abimbola Oyewole, on Tuesday overtly defied Sanwo-Olu's order to vacate Magodo Section 2 Property.
The CSP instructed the governor that he and his armed colleagues had been on the property on the orders of the Inspector-Basic of Police, Usman Baba; in addition to the Lawyer Basic of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN).
Sanwo-Olu had led members of his cupboard to go to the residents protesting the continual presence of armed policemen within the property.
For days, policemen besieged the property within the firm of suspected land grabbers and members of a household who had deliberate to demolish property within the alternative property to execute a Supreme Court docket judgment. The event brought on commotion on the property as landlords and tenants panic over their destiny.
Addressing the CSP earlier than journalists, Sanwo-Olu mentioned, "Can you call your superiors in Abuja and tell them that the governor is here and as the Chief Security Officer, you don't have any business being in my state right now and that I want you to disengage right now?"
However Oyewole replied, "I am here on the instruction of the Inspector General of Police through the AGF. I am too small or too low to call them. Your Excellency sir, you can call them sir."
In a chat with our correspondent, Adegboruwa mentioned the governor was not well-advised and shouldn't have made such public attraction to sentiments realizing that the police weren't underneath his management.
The senior lawyer mentioned, "In a federation, the governor ought to have full territorial management of the state the place he has been elected to control. The distinction between the governor and the Chief Superintendent of Police is within the mandate of the folks; the governor was elected because the consultant of the folks whereas the police officer is a part of the servant and individuals who serve the collective aspirations of our folks.
"To that extent, it mustn't have been overtly doable for us to have a scenario the place within the public glare the police defy the chief public officer of the state."I imagine that the governor was not well-advised to embark on open confrontation with the police realizing the constitutional limitations that hinder his directives or operational directions to cops who are usually not immediately underneath him.
"There ought to have been warning on each side; there ought to not have been an open confrontation between the governor and the police as a result of these are points we've recognized since 1999 that the structure has kind of stripped the governors of any powers by way of management of safety. So, to make such appeals to sentiments was not completely recommended on the a part of his excellency, with all due respect.
"But having said that, it addresses the need for us to rejig the constitution and work out a proper Federation. I do not support in any case that the governor should be helpless in containing crisis in a state." "The 1999 Structure tells a lie towards the folks of Nigeria when it claims that we're operating a Federation however strips the Governor of a State of powers over safety.
"In the final analysis, only restructuring can save this nation. Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable," he added.
