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LAGOS, June 10
(Xinhua / GNA) – Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is civilized yet
ripe for states to manage their own police system, a former chief of police
said Sunday.
Abubakar Tsav, a
retired police commissioner, who stated this in a statement published in the
Makurdi, capital of the Benue, north of the city, said that he was not against
the establishment of state police in the future.
The former police officer
The chief's reaction comes just a week after the result and recommendation of the
Presidential Panel on the Reform of the Special Anti-Theft Brigade (SARS).
The report of the
panel is in four volumes. Among other things, it has made the dismissal of
37 police officers of the force and the pursuit of 24 policemen.
The panel also
recommended the establishment of a state police and local communities and
renaming SARS to Anti-theft Section (ARS), which was his original name,
and operate the section under the arm of police intelligence.
Tsav added that, currently,
The activities of some politicians, including governors, suggested that the country
was not mature enough for such an arrangement.
According to him, the
establishment of the state police and local authorities, which requires
amendment of the constitution, invites to anarchy. "We are not ready yet
for such an arrangement, "he added.
"As I always say,
state government and local government police is desirable in Nigeria,
to people at the grbadroots, but we are not mature enough politically to
have such an arrangement in Nigeria, "said the former chief of police.
"We have a lot
modern "pharaohs" among our politicians and governors who can use the state and
the local government police to harbad and intimidate their politics
opponents, "he added.
Tsav said the state police
could be misused the same way some governors were abusing right now
security votes, noting that there might not be security of tenure for the state
police commissioners, especially those who refused to engage in illegal activities or the hatchet
jobs.
"Professionalism
can be compromised, "he added.
GNA
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