₦airaland Forum

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Caseless:
listen to yourself. Is there anything that's ever been "implemented properly" in Nigeria?

Yes. Stealing our money by politicians

DaudaAbu:
Yes. Stealing our money by politicians

gbam!

TPAND:
States can't afford it at this critical point. This bill should be kept on hold

For once in your Nairalande life, you make sense.

Very good.

leofab:
True federalism gradually building up

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Boleyndynasty2:
Police should be scrapped, When did it become the constitutional right for men in uniform standing on the road to be given #50 or more? And when you don't you'll be asked to park and then the make it look like you've committed an offense

Police should be scrapped? Did you type that or was it in error?
Nawa for some people.

This state police is a welcomed development, man o war should be giving this opportunity to show what they can do....they have been around for sometime now since 1951

In Nigeria we never learn the easy way,

Why can't we learn from the current police crisis in the US..

This state police poo will compound Nigerian problems

I hope the CPs will not turn to deputy governors overnight

Inasmuch as I support this move, what of the funding. The states that are owing workers salaries up to 8 months, how can they help in this regard

ha! with the way this oshiomole boys behave? you want to introduce state police to harass us more? state govt agencies are giving us headaches and you now want to arm them? I am really afraid because of this news. The level of oppression, harassment and unjustified arrests would just be unquantifiable. Imagine we have this in place today, PDP would have since withdrawn from this election

TPAND:
States can't afford it at this critical point. This bill should be kept on hold

It is not a must all the states establish state police at the same time. Any state that has the resources can go ahead after the law has been promulgated.

How about regionalism and making sure only sensible graduates get employed? University graduates I mean with very good results and not those thugs in uniform

How do they want to form this with no regionalism abi federalism? They just want to be stupid Sha. Revenue from oil has dipped, there's no reduction on their yeye budget for house of reps and they want state police smh

state police in this tribalised and unbalanced society?
if we had state police, one can only imagine what the Oba of Lagos would have done, if he had the mind to threaten people with "lagoon baptism" knowing fully well this same man was a former police inspector.

our politicians will use it to witch-hunt their opponents at will.
let's work for a just and equitable society before going for state police

Lagos state gvt has already approved the neigbourhood watch. They have recruited and waiting for tools to start operation probably after independence celebration. Am sure lagos state gvt has the capacity to finance this. Lagos need more law enforcement agency. Be it state and federal.

omonnakoda:
This has not been thought through fully .How will it be funded. Some states consume more police resources(and prison resources) than others at the expense of the FG ( Lagos particularly). Under the proposed arrangement will there be reallocation of resources from the centre and by what formula. If Lagos has to pay for its own policing I foresee a lot of hostility to non-indigenes and likely all police will be Yoruba,this will replicate across the country
There are other issues that need clarification will police be enforcing Sharia law e.g? Most likely they will. Apart from abuse by incumbent governors there are other potential risks which should not be a problem in a normal country but Nigeria is not a normal country
In summary good idea but implementation will be very tricky

Hmmn, then come and see how politicians will use the state police for selfish gains, just like the state electoral commission ISEC

Can state governors pay the salaries of the personnel? It was before that revenue sharing was mouth watering the idea was affordable. Any governor struggling to pay salaries will not want to venture into increasing her recurrent expenditure instead will use less amount to support existing security agencies like the police, army and civil defense.
All arms of government must minimize their recurrent expenditure and spend more on Capital projects which attracts both local investors and DFI. This is what governance is all about both whether in boom, recession or depression.

now dt state can not afford to pay workers salary, our house of assembly are planning to establish state police. hope corruption will not eventually destroy ds nation. imagine a state police without salary bn paid. haa! we want to finally finish the country with corruption, robbery, kidnapping e.t.c ok oooo.

ITbomb:
It's about time

I don't see why people should be afraid of state police if it is implemented properly.

Federal police will not be scrapped, so no reason to fear that state government would abuse the police powers.

If you feel a crime is not properly handled by the state police, the feds comes in. The federal police will always be there as oversight and will be more trained and sophisticated

While I am not opposed to the idea of state police, a huge concern is nigeria's inability to diligently implement an idea without selfish ulterior motives. Eventually, state police will be hijacked for political gains and there will be conflict of interest between the state police and federal police. Many rift can arise and we find a situation whereby the ones that are to protect are the one inflicting more pain and hardship.

Imagine that we have to deal with all the forceful extortions of federal police, lastma, Kai and co, then you now add state police! A country where paying salaries is as tedious as entering heaven?

Nigeria isn't ripe for state police yet, more so not politically yet...

i am tempted to say this is a good move, but Nigeria knows how to turn good things into bad things.

1. Hope the state government won't owe them like they've been owing their civil servants for months now. Imagine if police in a state goes on strike for lack of salary.

2. Hope the governors won't use them for personal, selfish purposes. He who pays the piper dictates the tune.

ITbomb:
It's about time

I don't see why people should be afraid of state police if it is implemented properly.

Federal police will not be scrapped, so no reason to fear that state government would abuse the police powers.

If you feel a crime is not properly handled by the state police, the feds comes in. The federal police will always be there as oversight and will be more trained and sophisticated

am afraid of state police as igbo person we will loose out imagine having land problem with yoruba person in lagos and u go state police full of yoruba police they must support thier brother what of north ? That one na no go area, then governors will use it to harass thier opponents

nnokwa042:
am afraid of state police as igbo person we will loose out imagine having land problem with yoruba person in lagos and u go state police full of yoruba police they must support thier brother what of north ? That one na no go area, then governors will use it to harass thier opponents

I so love the igbo man and land. Igbos love land.


Meanwhile your case is correct. They would definitely gang up again at you.

We aren't ready for this yet.

kenny987:
They better remember to redirect FG allocation for d Police to the states before we hear that it failed because states are unable to pay salaries.

There should be full devolution of powers and divestment of unnecessary weight from the centre and it should be done wholly otherwise this piecemeal approach will be scuttled very easily.

Erm! Actually the main funding is going to come from the states. So, i am wondering if its the right move at this time!

Ryt about tym

I concur with this development.

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ITbomb:
It's about time

I don't see why people should be afraid of state police if it is implemented properly.

Federal police will not be scrapped, so no reason to fear that state government would abuse the police powers.

If you feel a crime is not properly handled by the state police, the feds comes in. The federal police will always be there as oversight and will be more trained and sophisticated

Meanwhile, see VP Osinbajo reaction to the call for state police. Quite unexpected!

Nigeria don't need it, they will become tools for politicians, business men and top government officials as an object of oppression and other vices. You can't go against your pay master, as far as loyalty is concerned. Because of most politicians selfish interest they will want it to succeed. Instead they should reveal the salaries of the federal police, encourage security liaison, police community relationship and also encourage better working relationships with the vigilantes and other traditional policing system.

ItsMeAboki:
Nigerians will regret this decision, some are currently celebrating without realising the implications. We already have rouge governors and empowering them with state police is a very dangerous move. Can anyone imagine the fate of someone running foul of such governor with so much power concentrated in his hands? It would be foolish to assume you would now have free and fair elections in states with the governor as incumbent. I can only see more politically motivated extrajudicially motivated killing, torture and arrests for more Nigerians together with abuse ethnic and religious divide - the police will be another ready tool to use at the whim of the chief executive and his commissioners - may God help us.
We are not yet matured for such .

My fears exactly. We re not ripe for state Police. Imagine a gov like Fayose as commander of a brigade of police.

It will b a historic catastrophe. Imagine a Nigerian police wch is funded by FG, never owed a salary & still shoots ppu bcz of #50, wat do u think will bcz of dem wen dey r funded by states & can b owed as mch salaries as d governor so wishes, wat will bcm of state security wen police go on strike, since d national assembly cannot help us solve our problems why add to it.
Wat have we done to deserve these kind of leaders in this country. God why?

Clentuzbaba:
It will b a historic catastrophe. Imagine a Nigerian police wch is funded by FG, never owed a salary & still shoots ppu bcz of #50, wat do u think will bcz of dem wen dey r funded by states & can b owed as mch salaries as d governor so wishes, wat will bcm of state security wen police go on strike, since d national assembly cannot help us solve our problems why add to it.
Wat have we done to deserve these kind of leaders in this country. God why?

The biggest problem we ve in Nig is our politicians. The crop oF politicians we ve in Nig re unimaginably terrible.
Actions of Politicians led to militancy and bokoharam. Now with state police more to come.

States never get money to pay staff,now they want to add the burden of state police to their financial burdens

it should be implemented properly o or else state governors will use them to cause havoc