Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, national chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), says President Bola Tinubu’s administration lacks the credibility to implement state police.
Speaking on Friday while featuring on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, Baba Ahmed said “this is the worst possible time” for the federal government to implement state police.
The former presidential adviser said the proposal predates Tinubu’s administration, questioning why successive governments had not implemented it if it was the key to tackling insecurity.
He said while Nigeria’s policing system requires urgent reform, introducing state police under the current administration risks turning the initiative into a political tool.
“There are 100 good reasons why you have to revisit policing in Nigeria, but there are also 100 good reasons to say, don’t do it now,” he said.
“The issue of state police has been on the table long before Tinubu’s government. If
