Needless haggling over state police

Last Monday’s dialogue on state police organised by the House of Representatives in Abuja has turned out to be quite revelatory. Whereas most Nigerians seem in favour of decentralising policing, the police as an institution appear unenthusiastic. It is understandable. The enormous power they wield at the moment would most likely be lost or considerably attenuated if policing is devolved to the states.

The eventual decentralisation of the police may take a little longer than hoped, but despite opposition from some quarters, the constitutional amendment will be finalised and the police decentralised. Many of the speakers at the dialogue warned against, or feared, the abuse of police powers at the state level, but they did not feel strongly enough about any such potential abuse to abandon their support for the idea.

Mr Okolo may have publicly walked back the Police Force views on police decentralisation, but he has not been convincing. Mr Egbetokun knows the danger of openly opposing the administration, especially on a subject that has received wide support. He should go ahead and study the bill once more, assuming he had done it before, and see whether he cannot appreciate the matter beyond himself and his tenure.

Last September, she redefined sexual harassment in the University of Calabar case involving Cyril Ndifon, a Law professor and former dean, who is being tried for alleged sexual harassment of students. She was forced by a coalition of 500 women’s rights group to apologise. Last October, she also threatened to sue the United Nations for not properly accounting for the monies sourced from donors for Nigeria. Of course she had no locus.

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