Reject state police proposal, APC Forum tells Tinubu, NASS

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The North-Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has urged President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to defy mounting unit for the instauration of authorities constabulary successful Nigeria.

The telephone followed Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s renewed advocacy for authorities policing astatine a peculiar tribunal league successful Jos to people the commencement of the 2025/2026 ineligible year. Mutfwang said establishing authorities constabulary was indispensable to code insecurity successful Plateau and different parts of the country.

In a connection issued successful Abuja connected Friday, the Forum’s president and subordinate of the APC Campaign Council successful the 2023 elections, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, warned that the instauration of authorities constabulary could beryllium risky and counterproductive.

The Forum said it was acrophobic that authorities constabulary mightiness beryllium misused by authorities authorities, could deepen marginalization of number groups, and mightiness summation the hazard of governmental repression successful immoderate states.

It besides cautioned that successful secular and religiously divers regions specified arsenic the North-Central, arrangements for authorities policing — if misapplied — could negatively impact number faiths and taste practices.

Describing the connection arsenic a “dangerous path,” the Forum said it could undermine antiauthoritarian norms, criminalize dissent and endanger nationalist unity. It urged President Tinubu, lawmakers, civilian nine organizations and Nigerians astatine ample to cull the idea.

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