Senate Approval of the State Police Bill and the Regional Politricks of Interest that follows

The state Police Bill is one of the most appealing security measures Nigerians have been agitating for and it approval brings soothing relief of hope in curbing the menace of escalating insecurity.

In the Month of June, The house of representatives approved the forwarded Executive bill for the creation of state Police and it framework, few weeks later, the Nigerian Senate assented to the policy after years of deliberation on it workabililities without conflicting already existing policing structure. The bill in the Upper chamber was assented to by a majority vote without opposition, marking it as the first executive bill proposed to the legislative without a vote against.

Some states have agitated for the creation of community policing and state policing structure to tackle rising banditry and violent terrorism wrecking havoc in their States, where another state in Northern parts of the country is sponsoring bandits kingpins and their sponsors to Hajj with each one getting at least ₦10million for their pilgrimage expenses (according to source).

What's next after Senate approval?

The hope of affected communities is that the State Police creation is not turned to another political structure and game of interest where staffing slots is reserved for card carrying members of only the ruling party, associates of politicians, political praise singers and others who are not really passionate about security and protection of local communities.

It's a remarkable event in the history of Nigeria for the creation of state police but it execution should regard merit based system, experiences,intelligence, passion, justice driven authority rooted in inclusion of locals with effective administrative structure and foundation for it smooth operation alongside the already existing federal policing system.

With the power vested in each state governor to appoint the commissioner of state police, Nigerians are hoping that the organization will not derail from the purpose of establishing it in the nearest future and turned to election rigging agency working for the interest of the state governor, or not turned to another group that will be oppressing innocent citizens like the suspended SARS unit of the federal police