Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial District, Chimaroke Nnamani has stated that state police will not work in the country.

The former Governor of Enugu state who spoke on Channels Television's ‘Sunday Politics’ on May 9, recalled how the country had regional police in the past and the factors that led to its abolishment in the past.

According to Nnamani, some of the things that led to the abolition of regional police and formal entry into the state police have not changed.

He said;

“State police will not work in Nigeria. Remember that we had some form of state, regional police. We had an ordinance 4 of 1916 that formally established regional police, native authority police in the north, and also in western Nigeria.

“There were factors that led to the abolition of state police. With the 1966 coup and the emergence of the Ironsi government, a government committee was appointed to study policing in Nigeria. They presented their report in 1968. All those factors that led to the abolition of regional police and formal entry into the state police have not changed.

“Nigeria is organic; it’s one unit. For you to have state police, it means it has to be uniform in the 36 states; it has to be standardised in the 36 states. If it is not uniform, then it is inherently unequal.

“You’re going to have state police in a state like Lagos state with a poverty rate of 10 to 20 percent, compared to states that have poverty rate of 81 percent. How are you going to pay them?

“So, if you police Lagos effectively, what is the guarantee that you’ll be able to police states in other regions effectively? The standards are going to be different. Then, of course, there are the factors that led to the abolition of state police in the beginning — elite capture of the system, influence by political and traditional players.”

helinues:
Thb, the governors can't be trusted most especially when the election is around the corner

Igbochief001:

But the president can be trusted ?

helinues:


Wakaing.....

Igbochief001:
State police is very very necessary

If u fear state governors control why not have federal police but every body posted to his state of origin ...simple

Bringing a yoruba man to police kano would never work
Bringing hausas man to police imo would never work simple

Let people police themselves

Igbochief001:
State police is very very necessary

If u fear state governors control why not have federal police but every body posted to his state of origin ...simple

Bringing a yoruba man to police kano would never work
Bringing hausas man to police imo would never work simple if you think this way, then why are we fooling ourselves as one Nigeria

Let people police themselves

helinues:
Thb, the governors can't be trusted most especially when the election is around the corner

Ojiofor:


Are the federal police doing any better today?

helinues:


Not really but there are some eagle eyes watching federal police like state governors, senators, reps, SC.

Who will oversight state police? When state assembly members are under the cover of the governor, both local government and local judicial system still don't have full autonomy...

Coronabirus:
Nowadays, 80% of Police officers are indigenes of their state's. This started when Yaradua asked that officers redeployed back to their states of origin or closest states execwpt few senior officers.

Ojiofor:


Mind you people are seeking for alternative policing because the current arrangement has failed woefully. If it is working there won't be AMOTEKUN and EbubeAgu etc...

helinues:


Amotekun and EbubeAgu are yet to test election water...

PissfulProtester:
You see am ba? Na dem dey talk say state police no fit work now..later in the nearest future, you will see them agitating for state police

Igbos?

Damn!

helinues:


Not really but there are some eagle eyes watching federal police like state governors, senators, reps, SC.

Who will oversight state police? When state assembly members are under the cover of the governor, both local government and local judicial system still don't have full autonomy...