FG, States mull establishment of state police

President Bola Tinubu and the governors have decided to create state police across the nation.

This was revealed by Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, to State House correspondents following the President’s emergency call to the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The Minister announced that many meetings would be held to fine-tune the procedures for establishing state police.

According to him, “But now, there is also a discussion around the issue of state police. The federal government and 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 still has to be done in that direction. But what the federal government and state governments are agreeing to the necessity of having state policy.

“Now, this is a significant shift. But like I said, more works need to be done in that direction. A lot of meetings will have to happen between different governments and sub-nationals to see the modalities of achieving this.