N’Assembly Can Make State Police A Reality – El-Rufai

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai

Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, says only the National Assembly could make state police a reality.

El-Rufai, who was one of the speakers, said this on a live broadcast tagged ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now: Tactics and Strategies to Pull Nigeria from the Brink,’ on Friday.

He further asked the Federal Government to immediately implement three specific recommendations of the All Progressives Congress Committee on True Federalism to address the insecurity in the country.

He stated that Nigeria had failed “jealously and consistently protect its prerogatives and status as a leviathan, the ultimate guarantor of security, the protector of rights and the promoter of the rule of law.”

“There is nothing the governors can do. And these senators and House of Representatives members were elected from states. Many of them got elected with our help and support, but when they go to Abuja, they can grow large heads and will not cut their hair for two years, and they start thinking something else. I had one like that; I got him out.

“We want states to have more responsibilities so that we can be held more accountable. The reason I said we need state police, a decentralised judiciary and the vesting of mines, minerals and oils in states now is because if we don’t do it this year, next year, everything will be politicised,” Kaduna State governor said.

In response, the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya, who was also a speaker on the occasion, said, “Governor El-Rufai has said, ‘Let us all work together.’ We are very ready to do that.”

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