The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Olatunji Disu, has denied that the Nigeria Police Force was responsible for the delay in the establishment of the state police.
Disu, represented by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, in charge of the South East, denied the allegation on Tuesday in Awka, during a “Stakeholders meeting on security in Anambra”.
He admitted that the creation of the state police would enhance the efforts of the national police in preventing and tackling crime.
“The power to create the state police is a constitutional issue that resides with the national and state assemblies.
“When the National Assembly makes provision to amend the law establishing the NPF and goes on to amend it, then two-thirds of the State Assemblies must consent to it,” he said.
