Governors Support State Police As Means To Combat Insecurity

Kaduna State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari

The Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari, has explained that the creation of state police would assist in tackling the increasing insecurity in Nigeria.

This is in support of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo  assertion supporting the creation of state police to fight insurgency last week.

According to Osinbajo, “We cannot realistically police a country the size of Nigeria centrally from Abuja. State police and other community policing methods are clearly the way to go.”

Yari, made the benefit of the state police known after a two-day summit put together by the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Review of Current Security Infrastructure in Nigeria.

He said: “Today we have reiterated the position of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

“And the position of the security summit we held in August, that there is a need for the state police; we can say it is the only answer.”

Yari, who is the Zamfara State governor  said that internal security ought to be managed by the police, but the police of today were inadequate.

He said: “There are about 4 million people in Zamfara and we have fewer than 5000 policemen.

“We in governance agree that we can find a way through which we can fine tune the issue of state police.”

He added that “It is not all the states that are supposed to have the state police, those that could, should be able to have it.

“It is something we cannot take off at the same time. We were created differentl.”

 “Many challenges of Nigerians for the past ten years ranging from Boko Haram, cattle rustlers, armed banditry, and militancy in the Niger Delta are dwindling the Nigerian economy, and threatening the unity of the nation,”  Yari said