Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has urged Buhari to support the idea of state police in order to tackle the security challenges in the country.
Speaking on Thursday, Ekweremadu said that if the increasing rate of insecurity, banditry, kidnapping in the country must be nipped in the bud, there would be the urgent need for President Muhammadu Buhari to throw his weight behind calls for state police.
Ekweremadu attributed the rising security challenges on the unitary police system prescribed by the constitution.
He stressed it’s important to ensure that appropriate checks in terms of recruitment, appointment of police chiefs, control, logistics, funding, among others were put in place, to guide against possible abuse by State Governors as feared by some.
He suggested the establishment of a National Police Service Commission (NPSC) to exercise a level of oversight over the activities of the state police such as maintaining common facilities for all Police Services in the country, including training, criminal intelligence databases, forensic laboratories, among others.
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