Nigeria, April 14 -- In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES' Bakare Majeed, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson, speaks on insecurity in Nigeria, state police, constitutional amendment and other security-related issues.

PT: This is your second time as the chairman of the House defence committee. We know that lawmakers have deliberated on security issues many times behind closed doors, but your resolutions and summons have produced no results. Don't you think the legislative approach is not working?

Benson: We always say that you cannot use security to kill poverty. No matter how many security forces you have, no matter how much equipment you have, if there's poverty in the land the bad boys w...