Former Benue governor, Senator Gabriel Suswam, has voiced discontent with the proposal to empower states to have their own police, saying, it would exacerbate insecurity.
Suswam asserted this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, where he said state governors are incapable of overseeing a successful policing.
According to him, “I was a governor for eight years and know the power the governors wield. If you add state police to them, the security situation will get just worse.”
He added, “Local governments are placed under the states and governors conduct elections into the councils.
“The ruling party always pick all the seats and won’t allow the opposition to pick even a councillor seat.
“To perfect such a dictatorship, they use the federal police, imagine what will happen when they have a state police force under their armpits.”
