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Governors of the 19 northern states have said they will not support the call for the establishment of state police.

They said the country was not ripe for such creation.

The governors took this decision at their meeting in Abuja on Thursday night. The meeting was attended by 18 out of the 19 governors.

The northern governors’ position was, however, contrary to an earlier position taken by all the 36 governors about a month ago.

All the governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, had agreed that the insecurity problem in the country would best be tackled with the establishment of a state police.

But the northern governors said in their communiqué, which was signed by their Chairman, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, that the constitution must be amended to enable them to control commissioners of police in their respective states.


Aliyu, who is also the governor of Niger State, read the communiqué.

He said, “The forum is not in support of the creation of state police.

“It, however, resolved to prevail on the Federal Government to embark on police reform that will assist the states in the control and management of police affairs on a sound philosophy of modern policing by amending the provision of Section 215 of the constitution.”

The section reads, “Subject to the provision of this section, the governor or such commissioner of the government of the state as he may authorise in that behalf may give to the commissioner of police of that state such lawful directions with respect to the maintenance and securing of public safety and public order within the state as he may consider necessary, and the commissioner of police shall comply with those directives or cause them to be complied with.”

They canvassed the deleting of the proviso (Section 214) of the constitution, which requires that the order from the governor must be endorsed by the Inspector-General of Police.

On the tenure of the President and governors, the northern governors said the extant provision of the constitution “that provides for two terms of four years for President and governors be maintained.”

Pataki: Look at this apoda of a person! Yoruba composition. Arindin of the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Ode oshi. Show me where you (Ile Ode) has ever given any constructive criticism to your president? Did he listen to you?!

Omugo radarada! Gerrout of here man!

Pataki: I am appalled by your grammar. Had you made sense with your post, I would have accorded you a due response. Until that suffices, please go back to school.

Cheers.


Gbenu sohun my friend.

Make sense of this Retardeen and his idiotic policies.

Make sense of a Retardeen and his bling bling, smiling to me everytime Boko Haram strikes on tv with promises that ''he is on top of the situation'', ''the evil perpetrators will be brought to justice'' bla bla bla and yet these same murderers continue to wine and dine in his government.

Have we all forgotten Oct.1 2010 bombing? What did your Retardeen tell the whole world? ''My people are not behind the bombing''. My friend if you have any reason why GEJ does not deserve my criticisms please tender it or kindly shut it!

Kobojunkie: Why do you need to be told of a leader from THE VERY PAST we are desperately trying to get away from, especially when we all went to the polls last year to vote in a "new Government", that is better than this man Goodluck Jonathan? Why? What is the sense in that exercise? What do we gain from engaging in such discourse when we all agree that the past is BAD and what we want in the future is NOT THE PAST?

You say to "stop this silly tin dat leads to no where", isn't engaging in such discourse a "tin that leads to no where".

dayokanu: Just as supporting Abacha is seen as an offence

Pataki: LOL!

You are a nutter for real!!!

I think there is an idiotic level of index that is being used to recruit these bunch of dunderheads.

E.g: How well can you insult? How stewpeed is your stupidity? Do you have experience in aggravating sane mind with extreme malady? etc....lol

Beaf: I don't know what words to use to call this post daft, but bro, it really is daft in jaw-dropping ways.

It is posts like this that make you wonder at some Nigerians. Under GEJ, about every secret avenue by which money has been siphoned away from the national wallet since independence has been exposed. That goes from fuel subsidies to the reps "constituency projects" they seriously pad all budgets with for untracable theft (and for which they threatened GEJ with impeachment just last week) etc.

Your post is as ridiculous and wicked as accusing a man who reports an armed robbery of being a suspect.
It only makes you seem either of poor judgement or dishonest and desperate.

Eziachi: Did you in honesty wrote the above or did you do it after few rounds of waterboarding?

Baawaa: GEJ is clueless because he failed to fulfilled his electoral promises
GEJ is clueless because he is corrupt,a corrupt president can never curb corruption.
GEJ is clueless because he is adding to hardship of the masses(price of fuel jack-up,commodity prices sky rocket,Electricity bill "na double double"
GEJ is clueless because he cajoled us to be a be man unknown to us he is a devil in man nature.(January,when people were still in new year mode,he change the mode)
GEJ is clueless and vision-less because he circumstances president

dammytosh: My dear ,
Most basic laptops these days will carry visual studio 2010. Hence , the reason i concentrated on the screen size.

The screen size is as critical as all what you mentioned. Trust me i have programmed all my life for the past ?? years.

Need i add that my dell xps is not only 17inch but also core i7 with 8GB ram, 1terabte hdd

onatisi: the name sounds somehow sef , why are all this foreigner on nl always against Nigerian successful people so also is one dumb guy from Ghana called smoothcrim always abusing Nigerians ,why don't they go and start their own portal

MacDaddy01: E dey pain you?

Next time dont follow false prophets!

jason123: 1. Fashola
2. Rochas
3. Akpabio
4. Amechi
5. Oshiomole


Rochas cannot be above Fashola because Imo is an oil producing state, therefore, they receive extra income apart from the normal monthly wages.

Also, Imo state has a population 4.8 million (density=710/km2 (1,800/sq mi)) while Lagos has a population of 18 million, 3 times more than Imo state (density=20,000 persons per square km. more than 28 times of Imo state population density)