Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba has stated that the idea of State Police is a call to anarchy and chaos. The IGP made his opinion known at the Open Government Partnership Week in Abuja on Thursday.
Many Nigerians including politicians within Buhari’s cabinet have called for restructuring the security architecture of the country, where states can handle issues bordering on insecurity without relying on a weak federal police structure.
According to him, Politicians are clamouring for state police for their selfish purpose because they want to use the instrument of state police against their political opponents.
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IGP Alkali, who was represented at the event by Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Lemu Sanusi, opined: “But state police will bring anarchy. Look at what is happening with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Kaduna. With state police what will the situation be? If there is an armed robbery case, a governor cannot send state police. What the governors are looking for are instruments to defeat their political opponents,” he concluded.
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