Why is it that Nigeria has a National force, instead of individual State and City forces? Having one force in which answers to the Central government is ridiculously ineffective and wasteful, as has beef proven thus far.

While the gov. is making its way into decentralizing the nation, perhaps they should consider eliminating the subsidy on the Policing of the nation, by decentralizing it, and allowing each state to form their own Police forces, as well as allowing the nation's cities to form their own if they can afford to. The Central gov. can then use the the funds it spends on the NPF, to fund the creation of a much needed policing body similar to that of the FBI in which will handle only Federal criminal cases, much like that in which groups like Boka Haram present.

In the US, BH would be investigated, tracked down and eliminated by the well funded, trained and experienced agents of the FBI, in which even has authority over the State and city based police agencies, and can prosecute them if they are not performing appropriately. 

The problem with a Federal based police network, is that there is little room for checks and balance in the security network of a nation with it, and this leads to grave openings for mass corruption and pore performance.

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Completly agree with this. While in South Nigeria most of the policemen we saw were from far away states. Almost all of them i met were Hausa, i have no idea what the benefit of shipping police halfway across the country is.

The whole system is just bleeped.

pleep: Completly agree with this. While in South Nigeria most of the policemen we saw were from far away states. Almost all of them i met were Hausa, i have no idea what the benefit of shipping police halfway across the country is.

The whole system is just bleeped.

It's a system in which supports corruption, as is presently seen in the total ineffectiveness of the NPF to do anything right.

DaRapture: Why is it that Nigeria has a National force, instead of individual State and City forces? Having one force in which answers to the Central government is ridiculously ineffective and wasteful, as has beef proven thus far.

While the gov. is making its way into decentralizing the nation, perhaps they should consider eliminating the subsidy on the Policing of the nation, by decentralizing it, and allowing each state to form their own Police forces, as well as allowing the nation's cities to form their own if they can afford to. The Central gov. can then use the the funds it spends on the NPF, to fund the creation of a much needed policing body similar to that of the FBI in which will handle only Federal criminal cases, much like that in which groups like Boka Haram present.

In the US, BH would be investigated, tracked down and eliminated by the well funded, trained and experienced agents of the FBI, in which even has authority over the State and city based police agencies, and can prosecute them if they are not performing appropriately. 

The problem with a Federal based police network, is that there is little room for checks and balance in the security network of a nation with it, and this leads to grave openings for mass corruption and pore performance.

You make solid points but if they decided to decentralize the police force, there is a tendency that the governors would use them as their own personal army to control the people and fight off their own personal enemies.