State governors are seeking greater constitutional authority over security operations within their domains and guaranteed funding arrangements for the proposed State Police.
This push is detailed in a newly revealed report from a meeting convened by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Secretariat in Abuja last week.
The meeting brought together state Attorneys-General, legal experts, and senior security officials to harmonise proposals for a constitutional and institutional framework for decentralized policing across the country.
The resulting recommendations, published in an NGF bulletin, provide one of the clearest frameworks yet for how federal and state policing institutions could operate side by side under clearly defined constitutional mandates. The renewed urgency for these reforms comes amid growing concerns over worsening insecurity across several parts of Nigeria. Issues such as terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, communal conflicts, and violent crimes have continuously tested the capacity of the country’s centrally controlled policing structure.
Currently, although governors are commonly
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