Opeyemi Bamidele, the leader of the Senate, said that the National Assembly is drafting legislation to establish state police.
He said that the creation of the state police would be one of the steps taken to combat national insecurity. In a statement released on Sunday, Mr. Bamidele revealed this.
“The authority of the National Assembly is in the process of developing legal frameworks for the establishment of state police as one of the measures to address insecurity in the country.
“We urge security agencies to work together as a team to track and apprehend all the masterminds and sponsors of terror attacks nationwide. We appeal to some political actors who always lash out at the country’s challenges to push divisive narratives to learn from the example of Jesus Christ.
“Such actors are no longer playing opposition politics but simply taking advantage of the country’s internal conditions in the pursuit of their own parochial political outcomes,” stated Mr Bamidele.
Former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu (PDP, Enugu) supported a State Police Bill. The law aims to create the National Police Service Commission, the State Police Service Commission, the Federal Police, and the State Police Council.
On June 12, 2018, it was initially presented to the Eighth Senate, however, it was unsuccessful.
Along with celebrating Easter with Christians throughout the world, Mr. Bamidele urged leaders from all walks of life to avoid divisive agendas and storylines that would exacerbate the nation’s problems.
The politician urged Nigerians “to consciously reflect on the virtues of Jesus Christ; learn from his consecration and live his life of purpose rooted in the pursuit of justice love and redemption for humanity”.
The senator said, “In Nigeria today, Christ’s example clearly presents us a glimpse of how we should live together: as compatriots and not competitors, collaborators and not combatants, comrades and not contenders in the task of building a viable and virile federation that will serve the interest of all.
“The recent killings in Benue and Plateau states outright negated the virtues of peace and love that Jesus Christ taught during His days. The recurrent utterances by some political and sectional figures also belied the values of courage, perseverance and tolerance He evidently lived for. No country develops as a result of one section rising up against another and vice versa.”
