As a panacea to Nigeria’s insecurity challenges, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, has advocated for the creation of state police.
Kalu, while addressing newsmen in Abuja after returning from Geneva, Switzerland, where he represented Nigeria at the 55th WTO–Inter–Parliamentary Union Public Forum, explained that the state police bill before the National Assembly aims to improve response times and align policing with international standards.
The deputy speaker announced that a national public hearing on the bill will be held on Monday to give Nigerians the opportunity to air their views.
He said that the country’s current centralized policing system was inadequate and lagged behind global best practices.
“The only way we can achieve this is by unbundling the centralized structure, just as other countries operate municipal and state policing systems,” he said.
Kalu maintained that the need to guarantee security for the majority outweighs concerns about misuse.
“Nigeria and other African delegations are pressing for Afrocentric issues to feature prominently at the WTO Ministerial Conference scheduled for Yaoundé in March 2026, and that Africa and its problems must be on the table, not outside the room,” Kalu said.
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