Parties divided over proposed state police as debate intensifies - Businessday NG

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Political parties and other Nigerians have expressed sharply contrasting views over the National Assembly’s passage of the Constitution Alteration Bill seeking to establish state police, with supporters hailing it as a landmark solution to insecurity while critics warn it could become a dangerous political tool.

Both the Senate and the House of Representatives have passed the bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to Provide for the Establishment of State Police and Related Matters (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026 (SB.1055).”

The proposed legislation now awaits concurrence by state Houses of Assembly and presidential assent.

The bill introduces a dual policing structure comprising a Federal Police Service and State Police Services.