• Says it’s vulnerable without constitutionally guaranteed funding

•Warns business interests, cabals, criminals could hijack it if poorly funded

•Funding must be clearly spelt out before kick off, declares Speaker Abbas

Adedayo Akinwale and Sunday Aborisade in Abuja

Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday, said funding of the proposed state police services should be established as a first-line charge in the 1999 Constitution, stressing that it is the only way to protect it from possible interference by state governors.