When I stopped supporting Buhari's administration after 2015, the major reason for that decision I argued here is the fact that the president has refused to make the hard reforms that will effectively change the fortunes of our country.

We are now in 2020 and that still remains a fact. Nothing else confirms this like the current security situation in Lagos and Ogun. A bunch of kids looking for money to smoke week and party are preventing citizens from sleeping well at night because police reform is a mirage.

Reforms are not about offering palliative to citizens in the name of cash transfers. Any government can do that but not any government can truly reform a historically corrupt and inefficient institution like the Nigeria Police Force. That is the sort of reforms Nigeria needs!

Like the security architecture of the country, many other sectors require hard hitting reforms that would ensure operations within those sectors change forever for the better. But from 2015 till date, Buhari's administration have not managed any such reforms in any sector.

Let's focus on security for a bit. When Buhari assumed office, security was the major election issue for many citizens. With the situation in the Northeast as the highs, people wanted someone that can lead. Internal security however suffered and continue to suffer.

Many including myself blamed Abdulrahman Dambazzau (insect his title, I don't remember) as the minister of interior for failing to engineer a new internal security reality for the country. I argued then that as a military person perhaps his civil understanding is limited.

The premise of that argument is that because he was a military personnel he doesn't have the right context to better internal security. Now we have a new minister of interior (I don't know who the ghost is) and things haven't changed. The person is failing.

Now, it is not only that Nigeria's internal security situation has worsen since 2015, it is that the internal security situation is affecting how the military prosecute the external security and the Boko Haram situation which is a mix of both.

The military is stretched out and overworked due to the failure of the police force to carry out its duties. And this is as a result of the refusal of Buhari's government and whoever is in charge of ministry of interior to reform the police force.

Let's examine the Lagos situation. We argued a while back on reforming SARS or ending the unit or completely changing the way they interact with citizens. People close to government came up with a separate hashtag to rival that suggestion and a cosmetic was done by the force.

Not even up to 5 months or a year from then Lagos has been tormented by SARs and cultists. Every few weeks there is a situation with those two. Look away from Lagos for a bit. Where else in the country isn't criminals or police brutalizing people? Name a single state?

Now, away from the Federal government. Let's give less focus that Buhari. How have the governors fared on the issue of security? They don't seem to see what is going on. May FG is not the issue. May the inactive governors are. Why has the debate on internal security taken ages?

Governors are the chief security officers of their states and so fat they have failed their states. Are they going to push the reform of the force or not? Or they are more comfortable with citizens getting killed and maimed daily while their families are protected?

In the Federalism report sponsored by the APC and it's governors, there are clauses about reforming the police including sub-clauses on the need for state policing. That report is about 3 years old if I am not mistaken and completely forgotten by the APC Governors forum.

One has to wonder, do these governors actually want the best for the citizens of their states or they are just completely irresponsible to the responsibilitiee they have sworn oaths to carry out? Whichever the case, citizens continue to suffer from their failures.

But these governors will be reelected by the same citizens they have failed over and over again either as governors or legislatures again. So at times it is really hard to understand the social contract situation of Nigeria.