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The Senate on Wednesday passed the bill seeking to establish state police in Nigeria.
The upper chamber approved the bill after considering the report of its Committee on the Review of the Constitution, presented by Barau Jibrin, its chairman.
The bill’s clauses were considered at the Committee of the Whole before its final passage.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the passage of the bill after more than two-thirds of the senators voted in support via a manual voting process in which they raised their hands.
The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele,
