State Police Recipe For Anarchy – Shehu Sani

By Akinwale Kasali

Activist and former Senator, Shehu Sani, has said that the call for State Police is not the solution to curb the insecurity bedevilling the nation.

He said if established, State Governors will use it to harass, intimidate, threaten and persecute those not on the same page with them.

Sani stressed that its establishment will give room for rigging of elections and will be used by States to counter the Federal Police when conflicts arise, and there would be conflict of interest.

This he said would lead to anarchy.

He made this assertion via his verified X handle, where he stated: “The State Police will be used by the governors to persecute the opposition,to harass ‘non indigenes’, to rig elections and to counter the federal police in cases of conflict of interest between the federal government and the state.

“The proposed establishment of state police in the country as a mirage and a recipe for anarchy.

“Most of the state ruling party thugs will be recruited into the state police,” he added.

It would be recalled that the Federal Government  recently hinted about the likelihood of embracing State Police.

The development followed an emergency meeting between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and State Governors at the Aso Rock Villa.

The meeting was a sequel to the recent hike in food prices, economic hardship, and pockets of insecurity recorded nationwide.