State Police: Presidency Tasks Private Sector To Develop Comprehensive Funding, Implementation Blueprint.
It stated that businesses must take an active role in building the security institutions required to protect investments, create jobs and strengthen economic resilience.
Chief of Staff to the President and Chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill, Hon.
Femi Gbajabiamila, who gave the challenge, particularly charged the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), chambers of commerce and business associations with producing practical proposals for financing, institutional management and accountable partnerships to support the decentralisation of policing.
According to him, the private sector has a direct stake in the success of the reform because insecurity was already imposing enormous costs on businesses through disrupted supply chains, abandoned investments, postponed factory expansions and lost economic opportunities. Speaking during a plenary session on “Security, Stability and Economic Resilience” at the 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, Gbajabiamila said President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to establishing state police presented an opportunity for businesses to contribute directly to the development of security institutions capable of supporting sustainable economic growth. “I therefore ask the Nigerian Economic Summit Group to carry this engagement beyond our meeting. Bring forward a considered private sector contribution on financing and implementing state police, with practical proposals for accountable partnerships.
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