National Assembly fine-tuning legislation on state police – Akpabio says
Nigeria’s Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says the National Assembly is considering the creation of a national commission to oversee state policing operations as part of efforts to establish state police across the country.Speaking with journalists after leading National Assembly leaders on an Eid visit to Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos, Akpabio said the proposed commission would regulate recruitment, promotions, training and conduct within state police formations.“We are looking at ways of creating a positive and not a negative state police, and something that can have a national state police commission that will regulate the conduct of state policing, promotion, training and all that,” he said.According to Akpabio, the National Assembly is working closely with President T...
