Maybe President Buhari should use Nigeria's traditional rulers to address our ongoing security and economic crisis

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Traditional rulers will be obliged law to provide refuge for victims freeing from ethnic and religious persecution within their domains

[2] No state is to have more than five traditional monarchs to save costs

[3] All traditional monarchs will be tasked with collecting income tax within their domains as was the original design by the British

[4] Traditional rulers will be entitled to 5% of all tax they collect to serve as an incentive

[5] State governments will no longer fund any traditional institution. Local communities must find ways to fund them privately

[6] The chairmanship of the council of traditional rulers in each state is to be rotated on an annual basis

[7] There will be a National Council of Traditional Rulers that meets once a year. Its primary role will be controlling violence

[8] This National Council of Traditional Rulers will be free to advise the federal government on policy matters

[9] Traditional rulers are barred from engaging in partisan politics or interfering with the governance of their states

[10] This arrangement will be in place with 10 years after which it will be reviewed as part of a programme to phase out monarchies across Nigeria