The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has thrown its weight behind calls for the creation of a state policing system that will help in tackling insecurity in the country, especially in the North.
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, had on Thursday, announced that President Bola Tinubu, and the 36 state governors as well as the Minister of the FCT, following an emergency meeting in Abuja, were considering the possibility of setting up state police in the face of escalating insecurity and renewed violence in several parts of the country.
While applauding the move by the government, the NEF, in a statement signed by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, on Saturday, called on the federal and northern state governments to immediately take up the challenge of setting up state police to tackle the deterioration of security in the north.
