₦airaland Forum

Tinubu has always advocated for state police. I’m glad we’re getting nearer to see it.

In USA and UK like most advanced countries, policing is localised. Employ only local people who have genuine interest in protecting the community.

Why bring someone from Borno to police Abeokuta, no matter how sincere he might be, he cannot give his 100%

DarkkManB:
The senate will tactically not pass it, mark this.

I hope those in the senate are sensible enough to reject it

Kukutente23:
Why should the national police council appoint commissioners of police for the states
Why not have state police councils and why should state police not be headed by inspector generals instead of commissioners? I hope they are not trying to make commissioners of police ultimately subservient to the Federal police

When we get to that bridge we will sure know how to cross it,the most difficult part is getting started.

princepee:
Nonsense...
Na now day break
They should have kept playing politics with it.
This bill have been on for over two years
But it's easy for them to pass Old national anthem....
Bunch of crazy mofos

Till now, have you been able to achieve any success in your life?

Truths9ja:
National Assembly Library

Just a bit worried by the same issues plaguing the Federal Police. Namely who appoints who.

How will a state governor 'appoint' the Commissioner and then the Commissioner rejects a so called illegal order.

We have to get round this issue as a nation. We are a democracy. We have left colonial rule. Executive power should be reformed as well. It is the snake that eats the eggs of institution building.

Please can they find a way round Governors solely appointing Commissioners of Police until State Houses of Assembly are truly independent.

Kukutente23:
Why should the national police council appoint commissioners of police for the states
Why not have state police councils and why should state police not be headed by inspector generals instead of commissioners? I hope they are not trying to make commissioners of police ultimately subservient to the Federal police

Finally, someone is seeing through the whole smokescreen. The state police forces are supposed to be autonomous and only skeletally regulated by the overall policing body.

In addition, they also left a loophole by giving the provision that the Police Council can veto the orders of the state governor to the State Police Force if it's inconsistent (without defining what in consistency means) with policing standards. This means that the president can interfere with the affairs of each and every state police.

They're are not yet serious with the creation of a state police because this is still NPF promax. Make the state police autonomous, defining the arms and carriage limits, their scope etc, these people should behave like an organized institution for once and let's rest abeg!

nairalanda1:
And how would they fund the state police when funding federal police is wahala

I just dey laugh in state police

Mr. Tinubu said he has given states more resources than ever in the history of the country. What else should they be doing with the at the expense of their own security excess.

Are the funds for flyovers or for building shoddy, ramshackle airports. Heck, some states are even establishing airlines, sponsoring pilgrimages and mass weddings to the tune of billions.

You can afford all that but cannot afford to guard your boundaries and protect your peoples. What a joke.

Kukutente23:
Why should the national police council appoint commissioners of police for the states
Why not have state police councils and why should state police not be headed by inspector generals instead of commissioners? I hope they are not trying to make commissioners of police ultimately subservient to the Federal police

Another thing I did not see.
I think Pharaoh just doesn't want to let the slaves go.
Now he is saying go but hang around the corner where I can see you in case I change my mind.

The State police should be as independent as the Nigerian police is from the colonial British police. If not interference will be a recurring nightmare and nothing will work properly.

And when it stumbles the naysayers will be all out saying , 'we told.you so...'

The Federal police will frustrate the living daylights out of folks they will call subservient.

They should take a page out of the US policing system. It is about the best practice globally.

Lithiumite:
When we get to that bridge we will sure know how to cross it,the most difficult part is getting started.

This one thinks making laws for governance is like starting his keke napep
You mean you're going to carry out another constitution amendment when you get to your so-called bridge

Ebube Agu
Amotekun
Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps

But where I am concerned is
HISBAH POLICE

Reference:
Mr. Tinubu said he has given states more resources than ever in the history of the country. What else should they be doing with the at the expense of their own security excess.

Are the funds for flyovers or for building shoddy, ramshackle airports. Heck, some states are even establishing airlines, sponsoring pilgrimages and mass weddings to the tune of billions.

You can afford all that but cannot afford to guard your boundaries and protect your peoples. What a joke.

So you believe Tinubu now?

Still laughing in state police.

Wande22:
Ebube Agu Amotekun Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps But where I am concerned is HISBAH POLICE

The two-tier policing you have at the national level will trickle down to the state level, given that Sharia remains enshrined in the constitution. What this means is that there will remain one law for Islamists and terrorists and another law for non-Islamists even at the state level.

You better hold on to your local militia groups until you are sure you have completely removed Sharia from the Constitution of the nation. Otherwise,...

commoditiesnig:
Very welcome news.. the state houses should pls deliberate and pass the bill asap.

The country needs state police urgently!

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Tinubu may not take it through the State Assembly. You know how he set LG governments free without the input of the States.

great news…..the senate should not waste anytime in also passing it and pass on to the president to sign into law……enemies of Nigeria will be disgraced

LONG OVERDUE!

Hope the state Assembly and governors start work immediately.

DarkkManB:
The senate will tactically not pass it, mark this.

Wetin una dey read

They're waiting for your state house of assembly and you're here capping make una state house pass the bill first

Tufiakwa!!

odeku457:
LONG OVERDUE!

Hope the state Assembly and governors start work immediately.

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If they don’t, Tinubu will pass it without their input. He did it with LG Autonomy

frankson1:
Wetin una dey read They're waiting for your state house of assembly and you're here capping Tufiakwa!!

Why would they need to do any of that?

DarkkManB:
The senate will tactically not pass it, mark this.

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It’s Tinubu’s bill nah. Tinubu is the Senate, the Senate is Tinubu. But if the Senate decides to be unfortunate, Tinubu will pass and sign it without anyone’s input. He did it with LG Autonomy

jahsharon:
.➜It’s Tinubu’s bill nah. Tinubu is the Senate, the Senate is Tinubu

So, what you are conceding to is that the House and Senate belong to him? The nation is literally conquered by him.

Just like America
Federal Police will become like FBI that only interferes when the state police comes to it for help

My fear is incumbent governors will turn the state police to their personal army against political opponents especially during election time.
Almost every good thing in the country get abused for selfish reasons in the end

Kobojunkie:
So, what you are conceding to is that the House and Senate belong to him? The nation is literally conquered by him.

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If you want to cry, cry well well. Let me remind you also that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kudirat Small-Tiger is also our girl, Tinubu personally nominated her to represent Lagos at the Supreme Court some years back and has teleguided her till she got the number-one position at the Supreme Court. so Tinubu can do whatever he likes and that’s what he has been doing

jahsharon:
.➜If you want to cry, cry well well. Let me remind you also that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kudirat Small-Tiger is also our girl, Tinubu personally nominated her to represent Lagos at the Supreme Court some years back and has teleguided her till she got the number-one position at the Supreme Court. so Tinubu can do whatever he likes and that’s what he has been doing

At least you own it with your full chest that the country has been hijacked and no longer operating according to even the Constitution. And I hope Nigerians now see why that document needs to be shredded and burned in its entirety and a new one implemented to stop such fraud from befalling them ever again in the future.

jahsharon:
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If you want to cry, cry well well. Let me remind you also that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kudirat Small-Tiger is also our girl, Tinubu personally nominated her to represent Lagos at the Supreme Court some years back and has teleguided her till she got the number-one position at the Supreme Court. so Tinubu can do whatever he likes and that’s what he has been doing

Must you you respond to every Deek and Harry🤷‍♂️ just read mentions and move on.

Some particular tribes that always afraid of state police because they fear it will quicken the breakup of Nigeria will not like this news

jahsharon:
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If they don’t, Tinubu will pass it without their input. He did it with LG Autonomy

That is not possible.

A President cannot sign into law, a bill that has not been passed by both the House of Rep and the Senate.

When it is a Constitutional amendment, as in this case, then in addition to the bill passing in the 2 houses, it must be passed by not less than two-thirds of State Houses of Assembly before it goes to the President for signing.

There are no short cuts. The above processes are sacrosanct.

And the President has not signed any local government bill that bypassed any of those processes.

Beautiful news!

The best news I have read today!

The bill didn't even state a clear cut difference as per who is more superior, where each will be confined to and operate....

Soon state police boys will want to drag road or bribes with the federal police...they didn't even state how uniforms, personnel or firearms Wil go about.

They just hurriedly passed this billed with careful planning due to bandits n herdsmen surge.
Let them not create a monster that will be difficult to contain in future.

May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria

I go join Edo state police, and with my legally approved AK, any bandits I meet in the forest will be buried there

Earthstorms:
Hope they made the positions of police commissioners, Area commanders and DPOs elective positions.

The police to be accountable to the people and not to politicians as is the case in the US and other developed countries.

All those positions are not elective in the US, oga stop saying what you don't know. City Police chiefs in the US are appointed by the individual mayors of each City or towns and state police chiefs by State governors

Sheuns:
Make I go Dey do press up and join Lagos state police.

Pls no collect bribe oo and be strict in doing the right things without compromise when engaged. That will be the beginning of the greater Lagos.

phemray:
➜Pls no collect bribe oo and be strict in doing the right things without compromise when engaged. That will be the beginning of the greater Lagos.

He has the right attitude at least. Locals should make sure their state police are drawn from local individuals and not from a pool of foreign terrorists, including Islamists in Nigeria. In Southern Nigeria, for instance, many of the security jobs already go to Islamists from the North and abroad. To keep that from happening, local youths should endeavor to get themselves into those roles as soon as necessary.