By Yahaya Umar, Abuja
Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Olatunji Disu, has submitted a framework for the establishment of state police to Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Jibrin Barau as efforts to decentralise policing in Nigeria.
Disu submitted the framework yesterday to Barau, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, in his office at the National Assembly.
The President of the Senate Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ismail Mudashir, in a statement said the 75-page framework was submitted on behalf of the IGP by Prof. Olu Ogunsakin.
Ogunsakin is Chairman of the seven-man committee set up by the Inspector-General of Police to examine the modalities for the establishment of state police in Nigeria.
Mudashir said that the document was entitled: ‘A comprehensive framework for the establishment, governance and coordination of Federal and State Police”.
“The framework chronicles the proposed modus operandi of the State Police’.
The IGP said: “The report covers the considered views, professional insights and strategic recommendations of the force.
“Derived from extensive consultations and a careful assessment of the operational, legal and administrative implications of instituting state police in Nigeria.
“It is our expectation that the contents of this report will meaningfully contribute to ongoing deliberations and assist in shaping informed, balanced and pragmatic decisions on this critical aspect of national security architecture”.
He said that the report was forwarded to the Chairman and the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution, as the Nigeria Police Force’s input on the subject matter.
Responding, Barau commended the IGP for his proactiveness on the establishment of the state police, in line with President Bola Tinubu’s agenda to fully secure the country.
He said that the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, under his chairmanship, would look at the framework along with all other memos submitted to it for the review of the country’s grundnorm.
AljazirahNigeria reports that the push for the creation of State police in Nigeria once again came to the fore amid the wave of insecurity in the country.
