{
  "id": 12549161,
  "title": "Ex-IGP Egbetokun to FG, States: Policing Poverty With Bullets Is a Losing Strategy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/ex-igp-egbetokun-to-fg-states-policing-poverty-with-bullets-is-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T04:34:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/10/07/ex-igp-egbetokun-to-fg-states-policing-poverty-with-bullets-is-a-losing-strategy/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Former Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has urged the federal and state governments to address governance issues in order to tackle insecurity, asserting that \"there is no military solution to a governance problem.\" He advocated for a strategic shift in Nigeria's security strategy, focusing on food, job, health, and school security. Egbetokun explained, \"A hungry, unemployed youth is a recruitment base for any extremist ideology. Policing poverty with bullets is a losing strategy.\"\n\nAt the 20th International Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP) in Ibadan, Egbetokun emphasized that the global security system fails to address poverty, displacement, climate vulnerability, and social exclusion. He stressed the need to reform governance of security, not just equipment, and proposed a multi-level policing system with federal, state, and community levels, including clear rules, funding, and accountability.\n\nProf. Benjamin Aluko, President of SPSP, highlighted the international system's current state of uncertainty, violent conflicts, ethnic-religious tensions, and extremism. He noted that security governance has become essential in global debates and efforts to promote peace, justice, human rights, development, and social order. Vice Chancellor of Lead City University, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, opened the conference by emphasizing that security is about people, access to justice, trust in institutions, economic opportunities, and social inclusion. He added, \"Where governance is weak, insecurity thrives, where justice is absent, conflict grows, and where citizens lose confidence in institutions, instability becomes inevitable.\"",
  "summary": "Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan The immediate past Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, yesterday, challenged the federal and the state governments to solve governance problems to be able to solve",
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}