State Police Outline Reasons Tinubu Should Slow Down – Dickson

Seriake Dickson, the national leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), praised President Bola Tinubu’s decision to establish state police forces.

During an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’, Dickson added that the president should temper the pace of creating state police.

He argued that the priority should be combating terrorism and insecurity, and that the implementation of state police should be deferred to a future administration.

“President Tinubu should slow down the process of state police creation.”

“I commend the move to decentralise policing, but we should also decentralise mineral rights. That’s what we call resource control.”

“The president has done this (state police), and it has my support, but my prescription would have been to decentralise it to the zonal levels first.”

“Then, we amend the constitution to give governors power to appoint the commissioners of police working with the Police Service Commission, PSC, and then putting them to the Houses of Assembly for screening and oversight,” he said.

NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi also expressed doubts about the timing of the state police initiative.

“You can’t amend the constitution and give powers to the governors when there’s an upcoming election,” Obi had said.