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“Retired Inspectors-General of Police have visited me, and they have shown their concern. And we have deliberated”
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Cartoon: ‘Experience is the best teacher’
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“This Bill builds on the significant work already done in this regard by the House of Representatives and incorporates additional safeguards to ensure that the creation of a dual policing structure to address our nation’s evolving national security challenges can be achieved quickly and effectively to the benefit of all Nigerians,” he said.
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“We are still at the teething stage. We need experience, education and comparative studies from jurisdictions already practising state police.”
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The bill replaces the existing Section 214 with an entirely new provision that establishes Federal Police and State Police as co-equal creations
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Immediately the executive arm bill for the establishment of state police sailed through the National Assembly, some Nigerians, including longtime supporters of decentralized policing, started bellyaching. Everyone from news anchors to activists, not to mention opposition politicians, suddenly started trembling at the lips and appeared to be suffering from something akin to buyer’s remorse in their […]
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By AISHA AGBEREBI Should the federal government allow states to police themselves? It is one of the oldest arguments in Nigeria’s constitutional history and one of the most urgent. At its simplest, state policing is territorial policing: a model common in federal systems, in which state governments raise, fund, and direct their own officers, separate from a […]
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A governor cannot sack a police chief for refusing an improper order, or for resisting political pressure, without clearing two independent hurdles
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“We cannot allow political considerations to prevent us from embracing initiatives that will strengthen national security,” he said.
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated President Bola Tinubu following the Senate’s passage of the constitutional amendment bill seeking the establishment of state police.
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