Sokoto Assembly okays establishment of state police.
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The Sokoto State House of Assembly unanimously adopted the Sixth Alteration Bill, which seeks to provide a constitutional framework for establishing state police services in Nigeria.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Mustapha Abdullahi (APC-Sokoto South II), moved the motionduring plenary in Sokoto on Tuesday.
Presenting the bill, Abdullahi said it sought to amend the 1999 Constitution, as altered, to establish state police services while retaining the Nigeria Police Force as the federal police service. He said the executive transmitted the bill, the Senate considered it on June 24, the House of Representatives on July 23, andthe Sokoto Assembly on September 22. According to him, the proposed framework will delineate the responsibilities of federal and state police services to ensure effective policing and address security challenges across the country. He explained that the federal police would handle interstate and international crimes, terrorism, cybercrime, border security, policing of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and protection of federal assets.
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