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Nigeria’s House of Representatives approved the establishment of state police
in all 36 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory
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approval of state police was contained in a bill seeking to alter Section 214
of the constitution to provide for establishment of state and community police
in the country
The bill has passed second reading in the House Share on
Facebook Share on Twitter nigeria police On Tuesday, September 27, Nigeria’s
House of Representatives approved the establishment of state police in the 36
states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
According
to Vanguard, the approval of state police was contained in a bill seeking to
alter Section 214 of the constitution to provide for establishment of state and
community police in the country which passed second reading in the House.
The Bill also seeks to replace the
word “force” with “service” in its nomenclature. The sponsor of the bill, Dada
Awoyele, speaking in his lead debate, said that there was urgent need for an
amendment to the 1999 Constitution to allow the government establishment of a
state police in all the states.
According to him, the Nigeria Police Force
(NPF) as presently constituted was highly centralized and very far away from
the people, adding that the alteration had become necessary given the rate of
insecurity in the country.
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