President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila has disclosed that the federal government is in the final stage of working out the modalities for the establishment of state police.
According to him, the government is trying to ensure that all legal frame works are followed before the bill for its establishment is sent to the National Assembly for Constitutional amendment.
The president’s chief of Staff made the remark on Thursday while speaking to journalists after a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the nation’s capital with NASS Principal Officers, including the Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, as well as the Inspector General of Police, Tunji Disu.
Gbajabiamila stressed that President Tinubu is determined that state police are established, saying the issue is very important to the administration, noting however that the matter cannot be rushed because there’s “a lot involved in terms of the constitution and legalities.
He explained that the government is moving fact on the issue. “Hopefully the amendment will come shortly and then the details of the amendment will come after that,” he said.
“Right now what we’re looking at is the constitutional amendment itself, and then the enabling law will follow thereafter.
“So that’s what we’ve been deliberating on in the last couple of hours. And hopefully we know that there’s a national consensus on the establishment of state police.”
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