State police‘ll address security challenges at all levels — Reps
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs, Rep. Abubakar Yalleman, says state police will address security challenges in the country at all levels.
Insecurity: Nigeria needs regional police, not state police, by Olu Fasan
RECENTLY, faced with escalating violence across Nigeria, the president, Bola Tinubu, reportedly agreed with state governors to establish state police. The news excited those calling for state police in Nigeria. But the agitation for state police is misguided; it is based on shallow reasoning, not on a rational, hard-nosed analysis of the potential consequences. To […]
Reps pass state police bill for second reading
“It is the job of the police to maintain law and order. We have a population of over 200m people but we have a police strength that is less than 400,000. State Police should be created to address the internal security challenges of Nigeria.”
The argument for state police
THE chicken is coming home to roost at last. For the first time ever, the political leadership of this country has flashed the green light over the idea of decentralising the federal monopoly of policing in Nigeria. After President Bola Tinubu’s meeting with state governors last week, the Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris Malagi, announced […]
Insecurity: State police is mirage, recipe for anarchy — Shehu Sani
“The state police will be used by the governors to persecute the opposition,to harass ‘non indigenes’,to rig elections and to counter the federal police in cases of conflict of interest between the federal government and the state.”
Direct AGF to send Executive Bill on state police to NASS — Ex-lawmaker tells Tinubu
“Mr President should direct the Attorney General of the Federation to prepare an executive bill and forward to the National Assembly so that it will be treated as a stand-alone executive bill on state police.”
