There are strong indications that the creation of State Police to address issues of insecurity in the country may soon come to fruition as majority of state governors endorsed the policy today at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting.
At the National Economic Council NEC meeting chaired by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima on Thursday, 36 states submitted their recommendations with a majority of the governors in favour of the creation of state police.
The endorsement came through the Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani while briefing state house correspondents.
The only set back recorded while NEC members met on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, was the failure of the Federal Capital Territory Administration which is under Nyesom Wike to submit its recommendations.
The meeting however gave indications that final resolutions on state police creation may come at the next meeting in January 2025.
At the NEC meeting chaired by the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani confirmed that 36 states have submitted their recommendations with a majority of the governors in favour of the creation of state police.
Sani assured that at the next meeting, NEC will take a final position on the matter.
Recall that at a previous meeting in November, Kwara, Kebbi, Adamawa were said to be pending in terms of submitting their positions on state police.
“Today, one of the discussions we had at the NEC meeting was the update on the creation of state police. As you are aware, there was a submission by States toward the establishment of state police.
“Today, about 36 states have already made their submission for establishing state police in Nigeria. And I can say here that from what is available, virtually most of the states are in agreement with the establishment of state police in Nigeria.
“But today, the council decided to step down the discussion until the next council meeting, because we need to come up with a report from the secretariat.
“And after the report, there will be deliberation at the next NEC meeting that is likely taking place in January. And not only that, there’s also a resolution in the last NEC meeting, which today the Secretariate have also agreed on that there will be further stakeholder engagement after the panel and deliberation by the members of the NEC.
“So all we are saying here is that 36 states have made their own submission, and many states are in agreement for the establishment of state police, considering the fact that virtually every state has their peculiarity in terms of the problem we are having of insecurity in our own state
