State police can be used as instrument of oppression – Lawyer Maduabuchi

A ineligible practitioner, Oba Maduabuchi, SAN, has taken a antithetic opposing presumption connected the overmuch debated authorities constabulary successful the state to curb insecurity.
Speaking during an interrogation connected Arise Television connected Friday, Maduabuchi said leaving constabulary successful the hands of the governors could go an instrumentality of oppression.

DAILY POST had reported that President Bola Tinubu connected Wednesday called connected the National Assembly to commencement fashioning retired modalities to amend the constitution in bid to incorporated State Police.

Reacting, the lawyer said, “You bash not found a constabulary unit due to the fact that radical are aggravated oregon due to the fact that others are calling for it.

“It indispensable beryllium cautiously thought through. Poorly funded authorities constabulary hazard becoming toll-gate checkpoints wherever extortion replaces genuine information work.

“The prevalent information issues are not owed to an insufficient authorities constabulary presence, arsenic astir each Nigerian authorities possesses immoderate signifier of policing.

“For instance, the Western portion has Amotekun, providing information without requ...