As leaders and experts continue to propose how Nigeria can surmount the uphill task of insecurity, a former governor of Enugu State believes state police is not an option.
Senator Chimaroke Nnamani was of the opinion that adopting state police as a solution to the security challenges would be a wrong move because the factors that led to the abolition of regional police were still very much available.
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“That is not the solution. State police will not work in Nigeria,” he said when he featured on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
He added, “Remember that we had some form of state police – regional police, we had an ordinance of 1916 that formerly established regional police. There were factors that led to the abolition of state police.
“All those factors that led to the abolition of the regional police and formal entry into the central police have not changed. Nigeria is organic, it is one unit and what that means is that if the eye is having a problem, the brain could have a problem.”
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