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This is why the state police creation is very necessary because the federal police are too lazy and in many cases, aiding and abetting these terrorists. The federal police are more interested in collecting bribes from motorists than doing actual police work.

Video has surfaced showing armed bandits passing through a police checkpoint freely.

In the video obtained by SaharaReporters, police officers were also seen directing and hailing a large number of gunmen as they passed through the checkpoint on their motorcycles.


Security sources told SaharaReporters that the incident happened recently between Zamfara and Sokoto states.

“Bandits with their weapons are moving freely,” a man who recorded the video could be heard saying in Hausa.

However, another man in the vehicle quickly asked him to keep quiet.


“Please keep quiet, why are you talking?” he said.

Zamfara, Niger, Katsina, Sokoto, and many other states in North-West and North-Central Nigeria are bedevilled by bandit attacks.

The bandits kill and kidnap at will despite the large deployment of police officers and soldiers to the affected states.

In 2019, the Zamfara State government under former governor and current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, entered into a peace agreement with the gunmen.

But despite the accord, communities in the state were frequently attacked, and residents were kidnapped and/or killed.

https://saharareporters.com/2026/06/24/video-shows-police-officers-hailing-armed-bandits-they-pass-freely-through-checkpoint

Congratulations to the National Assembly. I will congratulate Nigerians when at least 24 states pass the bill and the President signs it into law. States are already empowered to operate state prisons, so the state police will complete the value chain in the security architecture of state governments.

Peter Obi is not mentally stable. Pity those who take him seriously. Onitsha people are still waiting for the Independent Power Plant that he promised them when he was Anambra state governor.

Where is our friend AMINDA who has been standing on Atiku's manhood or is it mandate?

YouandiAllofus:
Positive development.

While some states will achieve the functionality of effective state policing within the nearest possible future, others will take a very long time to put state policing to effect in their states because of the cumbersome nature of the rigorous modalities still needed to be ironed out.

Now that I am fully enlightened about this bill, I disagree with you that it is cumbersome. It only requires political will to see it to fruition. Delta state for example, begun construction of 25 police stations in its 25 LGAs for its envisaged police force, early this year, long before this bill was sent to the national assembly.

With the House of Representatives having passed the constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish state police and the Senate already advancing the proposal through Second Reading, momentum is building towards the realisation of one of Nigeria’s most debated security reforms.

Adding his voice to the call for state police, former Deputy Governor of Sokoto State and ex-Minister of Water Resources, Mukhtari Shagari, has urged the National Assembly to end years of debate and urgently approve the creation of state police, warning that Nigeria risks deeper insecurity if the reform is delayed further.

Details of the proposed constitutional amendment obtained by THISDAY on Friday revealed a far-reaching framework that would fundamentally restructure policing across the country by creating separate Federal and State Police formations with clearly defined responsibilities, powers and oversight mechanisms.

The proposed amendment, currently before the National Assembly, seeks to amend the Constitution to formally establish two distinct policing institutions—the Federal Police and State Police—in what could become one of the most significant security reforms since the return to democratic rule in 1999.

Under the proposal, each state would be empowered to establish its own police service through legislation passed by its House of Assembly, while the Federal Police would retain responsibility for national security and federal law enforcement functions.

The proposed legislation stipulates that State Police would not commence operations automatically. States seeking to establish police services must first enact relevant laws and meet national minimum standards prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly before receiving certification to operate.

The bill also contains transitional provisions under which the Federal Police would continue performing all policing functions in states until their respective police formations become fully operational.

A major highlight of the proposed amendment is the attempt to balance state policing powers with safeguards against abuse and excessive federal interference.

Similarly, State Commissioners of Police can only be removed by governors following recommendations from the National Police Council and approval by a two-thirds majority of the respective State Houses of Assembly.

Grounds for removal include grave misconduct, violations of police regulations, fraud-related convictions, bankruptcy and mental incapacity.

In a bid to address concerns over the financial sustainability of state police services, the proposal empowers the federal government to provide grants and financial assistance to states for policing purposes.

Such support would, however, be subject to recommendations by the National Police Council and approval by the National Assembly.

The constitutional amendment further proposes a restructuring of the existing Nigeria Police Council into a more expansive National Police Council with broader oversight responsibilities covering both federal and state police institutions.

The reconstituted council would include representatives from the federal government, state governments, civil society organisations, labour unions, traditional institutions, legal practitioners, journalists and human rights bodies.

Among its responsibilities would be the appointment and discipline of federal police officers, supervision of policing standards nationwide, coordination of intelligence systems, forensic services and training standards, as well as recommending senior state police officers for appointment.

The proposal also creates State Police Service Commissions in each state to oversee recruitment, discipline, promotion and administration of state police personnel.

The commissions would include representatives of key stakeholders such as the Nigerian Bar Association, Nigeria Labour Congress, National Human Rights Commission, Public Complaints Commission, traditional rulers and retired senior police officers.

The draft amendment seeks to place policing on the Concurrent Legislative List, thereby empowering both the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly to make laws relating to policing within their respective jurisdictions.

While the National Assembly would retain authority over national policing standards, firearms regulation, inter-governmental cooperation and federal intervention procedures, states would have powers to establish, fund and administer their police services in line with constitutional provisions.

Importantly, the bill prohibits the National Assembly from enacting laws that would grant federal authorities routine powers to appoint, deploy, transfer, discipline or control state police personnel, except in circumstances specifically authorised by the Constitution.

The proposal also contains consequential amendments to several sections of the Constitution to replace references to the Nigeria Police Force with the new Federal Police and State Police structures.

Other amendments include adjustments to the Exclusive Legislative List, provisions relating to forensic services, biometric databases, policing standards and intelligence-sharing mechanisms between federal and state police agencies.

The emergence of the proposal comes amid growing calls for the decentralisation of policing in response to rising insecurity, banditry, kidnapping, terrorism and communal conflicts across various parts of the country.

Advocates of state policing argue that governors, who are constitutionally designated as chief security officers of their states, require operational control over security institutions to effectively tackle local security challenges.

However, critics have raised concerns about potential political abuse, funding constraints and the possibility of state police forces being used as instruments of political intimidation.

The proposed constitutional safeguards appear aimed at addressing such concerns while creating a framework for cooperation between federal and state security institutions.

For the proposal to become law, it must secure approval by two-thirds of members of both chambers of the National Assembly and subsequently receive the endorsement of at least two-thirds of the State Houses of Assembly.

If passed, the amendment would mark a historic shift in Nigeria’s security architecture and potentially redefine policing and internal security management across the federation.

https://www.arise.tv/state-police-states-to-handle-local-policing-federal-authorities-retain-national-security-role/

If all the op wrote are correct, then the only issue I see as unnecessary and a deliberate stumbling block is number 5. Every other provision is acceptable for checks and balance.

Number 5 should be expunged. Some unscrupulous people in the National Assembly inserted it there to frustrate the actual take-off of state police.

I hope President Tinubu takes a thorough look at it and insist on expunging number 5 before giving his assent.

Tenses:
We all saw the interview. He was referring to the interviewer that was disrespecting him.

When did the interviewer Charles Aniagolu become a politician that Seriake Dickson will be telling him to go and form his own political party? Some of you Obidients are mu.mu

This is a welcome move. Kudos to President Tinubu for fast tracking this reform. It is very necessary. No more delays.

Peter Obi's stupidity has already put him out of contention.

Beginning to believe that Peter Obi has suffered a mental breakdown due to recurring political failures in the last decade. Let him resettle roaming Fulani herdsmen in his village in Agulu to show how peaceful they are.

He knows that if he misbehaves, Dickson will squeeze his balls.

Nigerian police force are terrible liars. You don't need an oracle to tell you that the kidnappers were paid in full to secure the release and this gun duel story is just a cover-up to discourage other kidnappers.

Says someone who has never been brave enough to participate in a party primary all through his deceptive political career. Peter Obi is as selfish and crooked as they come.

What is not fair is actually wearing a little girl like her thick hijab that doesn't allow penetration of breeze into her body in the harsh northern weather. Are they so promiscuous to the extent that little children like her arouse alhajis

How will these killings stop when President Tinubu has become deaf to public outcry and refuses to sack his NSA who has publicly called these terrorists his brothers?

How will the killings stop when President Tinubu refuses to create state police to bridge the huge policing gaps in the country but rather chooses to blame state governors who don't have any authority to plan and execute security strategies without getting approval from Abuja first?

When a usually tough politician like Nyesom Wike doesn't have the courage to cage these fulani herdsmen embarrassing the whole country with their uncontrolled cow parade on major thoroughfares and roads in the Capital, what do you expect from poor farmers in unpoliced rural communities in the country?

Only the creation of state police will put a stop to this jihadist terrorists using cows as objects of misdirection in their genocide against Christians with covert support of Islamists in the middle east.

Nijablast:
Obi was a useless Governor when he governed Anambra.

Very useless. He took Anambra state backwards with his dullness.

Content creator. Only to make noise on social media.

It was during Peter Obi's time that northerners were brutally attacked and killed in Anambra. There is a reason why IPOB terrorists like Peter Obi so much.

So why is your Fidelity bank not giving customers loans based on their educational backgrounds only? Peter Obi and lies are Siamese twins.

It was under Peter Obi's watch that northerners were slaughtered in Onitsha but if he is directly involved in giving the order is not certain. There is a reason IPOB terrorists like him so much.

The genocide against Christians in Nigeria continues. Yoruba Christian man murdered by his Fulani islamist captors.

Tinubu loves the Fulani terrorists more than his Yoruba people, if not, he would have since created state police, and removed Nuhu Ribadu from his position.

I came to check whether you wrote about the water issue. Good to know you were honest about it.

No mention of PDP and ADC.

And Peter Obi was separating fight between strangers in an airport. Now that he is needed here to do same thing in his own party, he will go and hide somewhere.

The international community, amnesty International and the United States' state department should wade in to stop this deliberate mockery of justice by islamists and their sympathizers in government who are using this as a textbook example of the consequences of resisting their ongoing genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

It is shameful that this barbaric act happened in Mangu which is the LGA of the Plateau state governor. The army is so biased and evidently complicit in the ongoing genocide against Christians in the middle belt of the country. The Christians in theses areas are being systematically killed and dispossessed of their lands so that fulani muslims can take over and forcibly become indigenes.

The creation of state police must not be delayed any further!

Just four months in ADC! That must be a national record in his decamping career.

They have till May 9th to decamp. I won't say much but congratulations in advance to Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano state.