By Emma Ujah Gusau
– Nigeria is now ripe for state police, the Governor of Zamfara State, Dr. Abdulaziz Abubakar, said Tuesday.
He spoke in his country home in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State, while addressing journalists on facility visit to the state.
According to him, the nation’s democracy has grown to a level to accommodate state police.
The governor explained that the continued killing of innocent Nigerians by various types of criminal elements made state police most imperative now.
His words, “Democracy is growing day- by -day and if you look at the situation of who controls the police and the problems today these are internal security problems which they should be able to handle.
“But that is not the case either because they are not well-trained, not enough or ill-equipped.
“State governors pay their allowances, provide logistics and equip them. It is only arms and ammunition that we don’t provide and yet they don’t take orders from the state chief executives.
“The other time we had intelligence that bandits were camped on a mountain, ready to attack a village.
“It was the state commissioner of police that brought it to me. We agreed to increase the Mobile police in the area.
After some time he came and said that he had orders to withdraw the police because they wanted them elsewhere and I said we should rather increase not withdraw.
I was preparing to travel to Turkey. The moment I travelled, the CP withdrew the police and in less than two days, the criminals attacked the village, killing more than 30 people.
If the police was under my control that CP would have ran away before I returned because I would not have only sacked him, he would have gone to prison
“But what did we see, a few months after, he was posted elsewhere and soon after promoted as Assistant Inspector General of Police”
The governor also gave an inşght into how he dedicates 70 per cent of his budget to capital.
According to him, upon assumption of office, he directed the civil service to prepare a 70/30 budget for capital and recurrent budget, respectively.
The governor said that their initial reaction was that it impossible but that heinsisted.
He said that 65 per cent capital /35 recurrent was brought and he rejected it until he has his way.
Gov. Abubakar advised that a drastic measure must be employed the change the federal government budget structure which is largely spent on recurrent, leaving only between 20- 25 per cent for capital projects.

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And even state Army if not Buhari and his Fulani herdsmen will obliterate a lot of States.

True

You guys from the north are against regional government, yet you want state police. Very funny. Zamfara is not a viable state. What will happen when you cannot pay police and they go on strike?

Only regional police by regional government can help.

PlsBanMe:
You guys from the north are against regional government, yet you want state police. Very funny. Zamfara is not a viable state. What will happen when you cannot pay police and they go on strike?

Only regional police by regional government can help.

yeah it is true, some states is not viable for state police.there are state(s) that have nt pay there workers salary and if combine with state police, that is a big problem

PlsBanMe:
You guys from the north are against regional government, yet you want state police. Very funny. Zamfara is not a viable state. What will happen when you cannot pay police and they go on strike?

Only regional police by regional government can help.

you're ryt to some extent,we knw it won't work without restructuring first.

If u still look closer,you'll see that regional police is nothing but a federal police in a mini-Nigeria.

 the CP withdrew the police and in less than two days, the criminals attacked the village, killing more than 30 people.If the police was under my control that CP would have ran away before I returned because I would not have only sacked him, he would have gone to prison
“But what did we see, a few months after, he was posted elsewhere and soon after promoted as Assistant Inspector General of Police”

I would like decentralized policing. The local governments doing it but that would require fiscal autonomy. The main point is police structure should be decentralized how each state handles it is their issue. Lastly prisons out of exclusive list.

The beautiful centralized pokicing everyone is defending. Calling governors chief secruity officers in state is an empty title. If state cant pay salaries fine let that be their problem. The federal government can be there to assist. Even idiotic governments know not to cut essential services like police and millitary. Even if they cant only the state in question suffers instead of collective punishment.

“State governors pay their allowances, provide logistics and equip them. It is only arms and ammunition that we don’t provide and yet they don’t take orders from the state chief executives.