Let me remind you, President Tinubu’s administration has been in power for more than three years. The issue of our state police has been on the table for longer than Tinubu’s government.
Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), has faulted the timing of the proposed legislation for the establishment of state police in the country, saying it ought to have been introduced a long time ago, news.ng reports.
Baba-Ahmed, who appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday night, said that a serious government that believes the establishment of state police would curb insecurity would have initiated it long ago.
According to him, this is the worst time to establish state police, adding that there are other measures President Bola Tinubu can take to improve the security situation in the country.
He said, “Let me remind you, President Tinubu’s administration has been in power for more than three years. The issue of our state police has been on the table for longer than Tinubu’s government.
“If it’s such a crucial element for improving our security, you would think a serious government, a serious president, would have said, ‘Ah, let’s do state police.’ It’s been there all along. People have said, address the issue of policing.
“The military has no business doing 99% of the work. You said the best time is now. The best time is not now.
“In fact, this is the worst possible time. This doesn’t say, and this is important, you’ve asked this question; let me repeat again, there are still 101 things President Tinubu can do with what he has on the ground to improve our security, to bring an end to all this stealing of human beings and killing of human beings. There is still a military; there is still police.”
According to him, the president is compounding the problem by creating more police officers and placing them under the control of state governors.
He, therefore, suggested that the president can improve the performance of the current police force and the military in order for them to work more efficiently.
“He can improve policing. He can improve the performance of the military. He can address many, many things.
“No, that’s not what he’s doing. He’s giving policemen, he’s creating policemen and giving them to states, and then he thinks that is the solution to the problem.
“So, you have to ask yourself, well, what is your contribution side? You have the federal police, which has failed to do any work. So what you’re doing is say, governors, take your, create your own police, go and do what you want to do with them. You are compounding the problem that we have,” he noted.
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