Nigeria, Jan. 22 -- Bewildered by a recent surge in insecurity, President Bola Tinubu summoned the Service Chiefs to a meeting last Tuesday. It has become a ritual, sickening and knee-jerk response by all presidents, which normally leads to nothing. This President should change course and pursue the struggle against insecurity to a logical end, and the police reform he initiated last October, become moored to the praxis of federalism.

At the end of the Nigeria Police Council conclave, which he chaired in October last year, he set up a Constitutional Review Committee to carry out comprehensive police reform. Lapses in the Constitution that encumber reforms; coordination among security agencies; alignment of technology with manpower resour...