Nigerian Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has asserted that the threshold of passing the State Police Bill by the National Assembly after 30 state Houses of Assembly approved the constitutional amendment.
Bamidele made the remark on Thursday, according to his media office, while delivering a lecture to participants of Senior Executive Course 48 at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State.
According to the Senate Leader, the National Assembly will now expedite action on the bill, to ensure that it’s passed by majority of both chambers of the Assembly for onward transmission to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his assent.
He said the NASS will ensure that the bill is transmitted to the president before December, saying there’s no going back on the quest by Nigerians to operate a dual-police system.
He also pointed out that the passage of the bill by no fewer than 30 stats in the country is historic, adding that the major hurdles for the country to operate a dual police system has been scaled, and the efforts to reform the police architecture in the country is now fully on course.
He explained that the NASS has set a clear deadline to ensure that the bill is ready for passage and sent to the president for his signature before the end of the year, adding that the security of lives and property is paramount to the lawmakers.
Bamidele: “We are pleased to inform our constituents across the federation that State Police have moved from rhetoric to reality.
“We have already received formal reports from the State Houses of Assembly and, as of today, no fewer than 30 states have approved the State Police Constitution Alteration Bill, 2026.
“By the provision of Section 9(2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), which requires the concurrence of not less than two-thirds of all State Houses of Assembly, the constitutional requirement for the alteration has been duly met. This is a historic milestone in our collective quest to re-engineer our security architecture and make it more responsive, more local, and more effective.
“We have set a clear timeline for ourselves. We intend to conclude all these legislative stages -consideration of reports, passage of resolution, and transmission for presidential assent -on or before December 2026”, Senator Bamidele added.
“It is now a constitutional reality. It means that the security of lives, private property and public assets occupies a prime place in the legislative agenda of the 10th National Assembly”, he stated.
The magazine reports that the number of states required to pass the constitutional amendment on the Police Bill has already been met after over 30 State Houses of Assembly endorsed it. Only two-thirds of the 36 states in the country including the Federal capital, FCT is required for any Constiutional amendment.
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