The Emir of Ningi in Bauchi, Alhaji Yunusa Muhammadu Dan Yaya, has declared his opposition to the creation of state police within the nation.
The revered conventional ruler argued that some governors would hijack the police and abuse it inappropriately.
Talking in an unique interview with choose journalists at his palace in Ningi on Sunday, the Emir stated what the nation wants shouldn’t be a state police however enough welfare for the Nigeria Police Drive.
He added that the underlying problem lies within the negligence or lack of political will by the federal authorities to deal with the calls for and necessities of the NPF.
Based on him, if the federal authorities adequately helps the police, such grievances wouldn’t come up.
His phrases: “I’ve many information, which is why I believe giving the police to states shouldn’t be acceptable. The purpose of the query you’re asking first is, why do you wish to do it now in states when we now have had the Nigerian Police for greater than 100 years? The reply is that there’s negligence or lack of political will on the a part of the federal authorities to deal with the calls for and wishes of the police. If the federal authorities takes care of them very effectively, you’ll not hear such agitation,” he confused.
“Subsequently, if successive federal governments failed to deal with the difficulty and handle the Nigeria Police, how will the states do it?
“They will’t. I believe the reality of the matter is that if we aren’t targeted, there could also be an issue, as a result of if states recruit these policemen, they are going to be given weapons. And if they’re given weapons, perhaps they received’t get a wage, they received’t get incentives, welfare, and different remunerations over time. Perhaps they won’t get so many issues, like good working amenities, wanted working instruments, welfare, and different issues which might be wanted. I believe the state governments can’t present for all their wants for the reason that federal authorities can also’t do it.”
“I bear in mind since we had been a provincial authorities (native authority), once we had the regulation enforcement and the police, they gave them the whole lot they wanted: vehicles, homes, and utilities. After they died, they took them to their hometowns, and so forth.”
“And at the moment, everybody noticed their greatness, gave them respect. However now I see the scenario is completely different, as I stated. It’s being stated by many individuals that the Nigerian Police and the Military individuals don’t see their greatness as earlier than, they usually don’t give them respect as earlier than. That’s the reason there’s lots of bother.”
“Let the state governments have police. Take a look at the ability given to state governors even now that the police aren’t of their arms. How is it in some states? You’ll be able to’t rule out fears that some governors would hijack the police and abuse it inappropriately,” he concluded.
DailyPost reviews that the Emir was a one-time Member Nationwide Council of States, representing the then Bauchi State (now Bauchi & Gombe) Council of Emirs (1979 – 1983), Member Nationwide Constitutional Convention representing North-East Conventional Rulers (1994 – 1995), and Member Conventional Rulers Sub – Committee on Imaginative and prescient 2010 Committee (1996 – 1997).
