A leading Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere has berated the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, for kicking against the establishment of State Police.
Afenifere dismissed as baseless the fear by ACF that governors would abuse State Police. Afenifere said that the ACF ’s opinion was not strong enough to stop the establishment of state police, noting that necessary institutions to check abuse by the governors would simply be put in place.
The group’s National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, made its position known in an interview with Punch.
He said “the handling of the killings by herdsmen across the country has shown that the Federal Government is misusing the Nigeria Police Force.”
Also speaking with the newspaper, the Executive Director, Civil Liberties Organization, Steve Aluko, said efficient mechanism for checks and balances to guide against abuse of the State Police could be put in place instead of the ACF’s rejection.
He stated, “There is the need for supervisory channels to curb the excesses of the governors.
“The justification for the state police is the success story of the joint civilian and military operations in countering insurgency and extreme radicalism in the North – East. State police system is an idea whose time has come to tame the increasing criminality of the new age.”
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