The establishment of State Police is overdue

By AISHA AGBEREBI 
Should the federal government allow states to police themselves? It is one of the oldest arguments in Nigeria’s constitutional history and one of the most urgent. At its simplest, state policing is territorial policing: a model common in federal systems, in which state governments raise, fund, and direct their own officers, separate from a federal force. Governors, security experts, and ordinary citizens have made this case for decades while watching kidnappers, bandits, and insurgents operate with impunity. Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation lends real weight to the argument. The scale of insecurity makes a compelling case on its own. The Nigeria Police Force...