While faulting federal policing, George suggested that community policing should be embraced.

He described community policing as the panacea to tackling the lingering security challenges facing the country during an interview on Channels Television’s Newsnight which will air later this evening.

The politicians urged governors to prioritise the protection of lives and properties.

He said, “The beauty of it is that you are sure to contain your local governments; the people, their lives and properties day and night, and they (those running it) would be people who will be hired within that community. They know who lives there, who does this, and if you see a stranger coming into the community at night; you have the right to challenge. They know everybody around and there is nothing better in terms of policing than that. What is the first job of anybody in government? Protection of lives and properties. That is the number one job,” the former military governor of Ondo State maintained. “If you cannot do that, then you are not fit to be the governor of that state. Maybe some states will have more because they can afford more,” Bode George said in response to comments that funding will be a major challenge in running community policing. Why are we thinking that the only way to provide security for lives and properties is by running federal police? It is not working.”

The late politician who was PDP’s governorship candidate in 2003, was killed while preparing for the governorship election in the state in 2007.

In his appeal to President Buhari, Bode George noted that it’s been 14 years since Funsho Williams was killed. He also stated that the former governorship candidate’s death dashed the hopes of several Lagosians and crumbled a great dream.

The PDP Chieftain said “He was gentle but reflective with sharp analytical convictions. There was always certain piety about him, an effective calibration in self-effacing innocence. He meant no harm to anyone. But he was firm, resolved, dedicated to the righteous path.  The PDP chieftain said Buhari has done the right thing by reopening investigation into the death of Bola Ige, former minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation. It has been 14 years now when a terrible dark cloud fell upon the Lagosian entity and upon all lovers of freedom. It was really a very sad day on that horrific July 27, 2006, as the blood-soaked body of Engineer Funsho Williams was discovered in his Dolphin residence in Ikoyi. With the murder of Funsho Williams, who stood at the threshold of triumphing at the general election, a great dream was shattered. The hopes of millions of Lagosians who were hearkening to be rescued from what was then building up as a gradual servitude of the Lagosian natives was dashed. I am particularly passionate about Funsho who many of his acolytes adorably called the captain. Funsho was my junior at the University of Lagos. We were both Engineering students but sprung from different departments. While he was in Civil Engineering, I was in the Electrical Engineering Department. Those who killed Funsho Williams might have killed a man but not his dream of rescuing and salvaging our society. We continue where he stopped. We appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to re-open the investigation of the brutal murder of Funsho Williams. The President has done the right thing by re-opening the investigation of the murder of Chief Bola Ige. He will be greatly enhanced in historical reckoning and signification if his administration is attested as being the one that finally nailed the evil characters hiding in plain sight who murdered Funsho Williams.”