State Police: Details Of FG, State Govs Emergency Meetings

To tackle the ongoing insecurity across Nigeria, the Federal Government and the governors of the 36 states are considering the creation of state police.

According to reports, state police was part of the deliberations at an emergency meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the state governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.

Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed this while addressing state house correspondents after the meeting, explaining that the process is still in its infancy and would only take shape after more deliberations between stakeholders.

In his words; “There is also a discussion around the issue of state police. The federal government and the state governments are mulling the possibility of setting up state police. Of course, this is still going to be further discussed. A lot of work has to be done in that direction. But if our government and the state governments agree to the necessity of having state police, this is a significant shift. Like I said, more work needs to be done in that direction. A lot of meetings will have to happen between the Federal Government and dissolved nationals to see the modalities of achieving this.”

The emergency meeting was convened as a fallout of the socio- economic crisis in the country which includes the recent hike in food prices, economic hardship, as well as pockets of insecurity recorded nationwide.