The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele on Monday said creating state police would deepen internal security in the country. Opeyemi said this in a statement in Abuja released by the Directorate of Media and Publicity, Office of the Senate Leader.
He said the need for state police was due to the present police system, which he described as 'ailing and dysfunctional'. “We must admit that the system can no longer guarantee the dignity of human lives and the security of collective assets considering our security dynamics in the Fourth Republic. “The proposal for the creation of state police has been a subject of intense debate in the last decade or more.
“This is as shown in the demographic data of the United Nations. Contrarily, as revealed in the recent presentation of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, Nigeria has a police-citizen ratio of one to 650. “This ratio is a far cry from a ratio of one to 460, which according to the United Nations, is a minimum requirement for every sovereign state or territory worldwide,” said Bamidele.
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