The push for state police gathered momentum yesterday as newly sworn-in Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tunji Disu, inaugurated a high-powered committee to develop a framework for its implementation, declaring that decentralised policing “has come to stay.”
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The move comes amid renewed national debate and repeated calls for state police, as well as President Bola Tinubu’s recent charge to the National Assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution to accommodate it as part of broader security reforms.
Disu, who succeeded Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, was sworn in, yesterday, by Tinubu as the 23rd indigenous Inspector-General of Police at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the committee’s assignment is “significant and timely” given Nigeria’s evolving security challenges.Read The; Complete Original.