The Senate on Tuesday set a two-week target to amend the 1999 Constitution to enable the creation of state and community police in Nigeria.
Today, my colleagues and I in the 8th Senate resolved to begin the process of amending the Constitution to allow for the creation of State and Community Police. This is following our debate on solutions to the killings across the country. https://t.co/KHaFovl52G pic.twitter.com/M7KJybDL27
— Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 3, 2018
This is coming amid security challenges confronting the country.
“The Senate should direct its constitutional review committee to put in machinery to amend the constitution to allow for the creation of State Police,” the Senate President Bukola Saraki read during Tuesday’s plenary.
More to come…
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