Amend Nigeria’s constitution to incorporate state police – Tinubu tells senators

President Bola Tinubu has urged the Senate to amend Nigeria’s constitution to marque proviso for authorities police.

Tinubu made the plea during an interfaith breaking of accelerated (Iftar) with senators astatine the Presidential Villa successful Abuja connected Wednesday evening.

The President, who said his medication is facing challenges posed by banditry, coercion and insurgency, expressed the content that authorities constabulary could supply the solution to the problem.

“We are facing terrorism, banditry, and insurgency. But we volition ne'er neglect to marque a close effect to this cause. What I volition inquire for contiguous is for you (senators) to commencement reasoning however champion to amend the constitution to incorporated the authorities constabulary for america to unafraid our country, instrumentality implicit our forests from marauders, and escaped our children from fear.

“I person a batch of recognition for bold reforms. Without your collaboration and inspiration, those reforms would not beryllium possible. We are reformists together.

“What we gave up and what we stopped is monumental corruption successful the subsidy system.

“We don’t privation to enactment successful monumental corruption and arb...