The National Economic Council (NEC) has given all states until September 9, 2024, to make their stand known on the establishment of State Police.

NEC gave the deadline on Wednesday at its meeting chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima.

Briefing State House Correspondents not long after the meeting held at the Council Chamber of the State House Abuja, the Acting Governor of Oyo State, Bayo Lawal, said out of the 36 states, 4 states were yet to make submissions to NEC on their stands.

As indicated by Lawal, NEC directed that the four states should make their stance on the issue known by Monday.

While the four states were not called out during the briefing, NEC insisted that after Monday, any listed which neglected to make submission would have no choice than to acknowledge whatever choice is reached ultimately.

The most recent couple of years have been overwhelmed with talks about state police, with some leaders, including Lead Representatives and regional socio-political groups such as Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, saying it would control the threatening pattern of abduction, banditry, and various crimes.

The calls for the establishment of state police prompted President Bola Tinubu and Lead Representatives of the 36 states to reach an agreement in mid-February 2024.

They agreed on state police as a method to checkmate the heightening security challenges in the nation.

A month after the agreement, 16 Lead Representatives presented their reports to the National Economic Council (NEC), communicating their support for the establishment of state police and the amendment of the 1999 Constitution to consider something similar.

From that point forward, more states have additionally tabled their positions on the issue, excluding only four states yet to make their own entries.

However, numerous individuals and groups have called for the establishment of state police, the proposition has faced a few criticisms from certain quarters.

A few persons accept that funding could be really difficult for state police as certain Lead Representatives would request an upward review of monthly allocations to their states.

Others have additionally contended that state Lead Representatives would use the state police to hound their political adversaries.

Btruth:
Oya now.......follow by states own electricity generations and others. State should control the resources too.

Let's go abeg.

ZKOSOSO:
Best Bill in the history of Nigeria 🇳🇬

Veegil:


https://www.channelstv.com/2024/09/04/state-police-nec-gives-states-deadline-to-make-submissions/

mytime24:
Governor's police against their opposition 🤔

SocialJustice:
State police is the next disaster waiting to happen to Nigeria.

ggood:
State police is a dream come true, No Fulani invaders from Futa Jalon will be allow to cow from one place to another.

Any Fulani Invaders caught will be sent to hell by our able body State police men, If you want to feed your cow state in Zamfara, Sokoto, Jigawa, kaduna north, Yobe, Katsina, Bauchi , Gombe, northern Adamawa, Northern Borno, Northern Kebbi if you dare move down southern Nigeria and middle belt sorry is your name

Lithiumite:


It's the best thing that would happen together with full LG autonomy...... people who reason like you obviously don't know that Nigeria's problem is systemic and we can't achieve anything with this defective structure we are having.

Tinubu is getting certain things right but we know it can't be perfect from the beginning but it's never too late to start.

post=131869697:

You are right from the perspective you are coming from also Mytime,
We believed that Our politicians are not civilised enough and tolerant of opposing views and cannot preside over a competent and impartial police force
Cos we remembered,
When in 2018 there was a summit to consider the establishment of State Police, there was a counter argument by the late Abubakar Tsav, a retired police commissioner, that the establishment of state police will signal the beginning of the disintegration of the country, as governors would use the institution against their perceived political opponents.
State and federal police commands are also likely to work at cross-purpose.

Our additional reasons of concern are that we have very serious ethnic and religious divides in the country at this time and many governors believe that if they have their own police, they can deal with the other.
For example, the pastoralists and farmers conflicts have been intensifying in many states and some governors have clear proclivities of seeking to expel or protect pastoralists in their states, opening the doors to a new dimension of identity conflicts that would deepen the crisis facing the Nigerian state today.

Some of us at MANNA remembered back then while growing up when we use to have regional/state police back in our darling country,
But, native police forces were abolished and they ceased to exist, beginning from February 1968. Nevertheless, existing personnel in these forces were recruited into the Nigerian Police Force as a unitary federal agency of the Nigerian government.
This structure has continued to the present day.

All said and done,
It will bring more good than bad.
There are much more merits in this than demerits.

A better Nigeria 🇳🇬 all around is all we want at MANNABBQGRlLLS.
God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬 🙏
We Rise ✔️

Kobicove:
I will never support state police in Nigeria cos I know it will not end well!

SocialJustice:
State police is the next disaster waiting to happen to Nigeria.

SocialJustice:
State police is the next disaster waiting to happen to Nigeria.

post=131869697:

You are right from the perspective you are coming from also Mytime,
We believed that Our politicians are not civilised enough and tolerant of opposing views and cannot preside over a competent and impartial police force
Cos we remembered,
When in 2018 there was a summit to consider the establishment of State Police, there was a counter argument by the late Abubakar Tsav, a retired police commissioner, that the establishment of state police will signal the beginning of the disintegration of the country, as governors would use the institution against their perceived political opponents.
State and federal police commands are also likely to work at cross-purpose.

Our additional reasons of concern are that we have very serious ethnic and religious divides in the country at this time and many governors believe that if they have their own police, they can deal with the other.
For example, the pastoralists and farmers conflicts have been intensifying in many states and some governors have clear proclivities of seeking to expel or protect pastoralists in their states, opening the doors to a new dimension of identity conflicts that would deepen the crisis facing the Nigerian state today.

Some of us at MANNA remembered back then while growing up when we use to have regional/state police back in our darling country,
But, native police forces were abolished and they ceased to exist, beginning from February 1968. Nevertheless, existing personnel in these forces were recruited into the Nigerian Police Force as a unitary federal agency of the Nigerian government.
This structure has continued to the present day.

All said and done,
It will bring more good than bad.
There are much more merits in this than demerits.

A better Nigeria 🇳🇬 all around is all we want at MANNABBQGRlLLS.
God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬 🙏
We Rise ✔️

SocialJustice:
State police is the next disaster waiting to happen to Nigeria.

lexy2014:


tinubu getting certain things right? de there de deceive yourself.

states that say they cant pay 70k min wage, how will they fund state police?

you dont know tinubu. he has thrown this one to you so that you can be distracted from the fuel suffering he just introduced.

you are expecting a man with no iota of honesty, patriotism, competence or empathy to do anything for the right purpose? a

all the best with believing tinubu