The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State chapter, Mr. Philip Aivoji, has backed the idea of introducing state police, News About Nigeria reports.
He made this disclosure while speaking in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos.
Aivoji noted that the problem of insecurity will be substantially reduced if state police are adopted in the country.
He stated that, looking at the growing cases of insecurity and kidnapping in the country, a state police is definitely a welcome idea.
The PDP Chairman further noted that state police involves getting people from various communities and training them to police people in that locality, maintaining that this is because they know the people in the environment and they can identify those who are natives of the area, and when there are non-natives, they will be able to question them and know where they are coming from.
“This call has been on for quite some time now as we look at the growing cases of kidnapping and violent crimes taking place across the country.
“The issue of the state police is a welcome development.
“What I understand by the state police is that we get people in their environment and train them to police people in that locality,” he stated.
Speaking on the possibility of state police being abused by state governors, Aivoji noted that such tendencies had been responsible for the delay in the general acceptance of the state police and added that it would address many of the country’s internal security problems if well managed by states.
The PDP boss, who was recently abducted by kidnappers and later released, said that no efforts should be spared to combat the rising insecurity across the states of the federation.
