Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, on Sunday, ignited discussions on the financial implications of adopting state police in Nigeria. Sule suggests that governors may push for a revision of the current revenue allocation formula if such a system is implemented.
The governor of the North Central state, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, said funding would be an issue for governors to pursue the adoption and implementation of state police.
He said, “I went to school, grew up and went to school in a country where it is not even state police; you have county police, which is local government police. The institution I attended, Indiana University, had Indiana University Police. So, I grew up in the background of this independent police and distribution. Sometimes, we just see what is happening in other countries and we just want to adopt.
