Senator representing Plateau North in the Senate, Gyang Pwajok, on Monday, called for the restructuring of the nation's security apparatus, with more powers given to states to control the police.
He explained that the current unitary structure of the police had not helped in entrenching long lasting peace in many of the nation's trouble spots including Plateau State.
Speaking on the recurring violence in Plateau State, Pwajok said, "We in Plateau State believe that the state is an example of what Nigeria could have been in terms of the level of accommodation.
"At some points in Plateau State, we have had cause to complain of the possibility of security management in itself.
"Where states are more or less at the mercy of the unitary control of the security structure at the end of the day, you cannot always direct how things should be done.
"For instance, when people are caught and the next thing you get is a directive from Force Headquarters that the people should be transferred, they immediately fall outside the purview of the state in that regard."
He added, "That is all because we have a unitary security structure arrangement that allows for even people who have been indicted in the past to take charge of affairs at the national level.
"We believe that there is a need for a review in such a way that community policing can be more effective."
He lamented that the attacks had become more dangerous.
Pwajok said, "But today, we have suffered a series of attacks and the attacks are becoming more of guerrilla attacks even in the dead of the night where families who hitherto knew nothing about conflicts are wiped out overnight.
"The implication is far reaching, that there is a new development throughout Nigeria where some agents of death have been unleashed all over Nigeria and Plateau has become more or less the theatre of such attacks and we are beginning to see how this is developing over time.
"The idea of absolute absence of conflict may not be obtainable in any part of the world but what we are doing is to reduce the possibility of any of such conflicts and this require both internal efforts within the state and external efforts from outside the state."