The Minority Leader of the Senate, Abba Moro, has faulted the proposed establishment of state police as a solution to the country’s security challenges.
Mr Moro, who represents Benue South Senatorial District, said governors advocating state police are doing so to push their personal interests rather than improve security.
The minority leader, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stated this while addressing journalists at the National Assembly on Wednesday after plenary. He spoke as a follow-up to a motion he sponsored on the need to halt the killings in his senatorial district.
He expressed concern that many state governments would struggle to sustain funding for state police and warned that the institution could be compromised in the same way as state independent electoral commissions.
“How are we sure, like I used to say, that the state police will not be put to use the way the state independent electoral commission has been put in recent times, endangering our democracy? I think at the moment, those asking for state police are asking for it as an institution to put to whatever use they want, not necessarily as an institution to confront the menace of insecurity,” he said.
