Senator Ajibola Basiru supports call for state police
Delivering a lecture organised by the Correspondents chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Kwara state held at the Press centre, Ilorin, Senator Basiru said ” obviously,this lack of trust has led many Nigerians to question the capacity of government to guarantee safety and security of Nigerians under the 1999 constitutional framework of a centralised police force and all other security agencies.
According to the lawmaker, policing a nation or community is said to be local and cannot be best solved by the centralised system of policing that we operate. On the judiciary as a strong pillar of democracy, the Senator said the problem of that arm of government “Is that of capacity rather than independence that is affecting its ability to fairly and efficiently dispense justice.
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