State police bill may worsen insecurity – Security expert warns 

A retired elder constabulary officer, DSP Adamu M. Muhammad (Rtd), has warned that establishing authorities constabulary successful Nigeria without archetypal addressing the problems facing the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) could worsen insecurity and endanger nationalist unity.
Muhammad spoke to DAILY POST pursuing the Senate’s transition of a measure seeking to found authorities constabulary crossed the country.

In the exclusive interview, helium said though increasing insecurity has renewed calls for authorities police, the connection does not code the existent issues affecting policing successful Nigeria.

According to him, “Creating State Police astatine this infinitesimal poses superior risks to nationalist stability, interior information and the information of instrumentality abiding citizens.”

The retired serviceman argued that successive governments had weakened the Nigeria Police Force done years of neglect, mediocre backing and the transportation of cardinal policing responsibilities to different agencies.

He said captious institutions specified arsenic the DSS, FRSC and EFCC were created to execute duties that were primitively handled by constabulary departments, portion constabulary assets, including barracks, onshore and operational vehicles, had allegedly been sold without improving the Force.

Muhammad besides lamented the mediocre payment of constabulary officers, saying galore unit bargain their ain uniforms and equipment, portion divisional commands person small ...