The North-Central All Progressives Congress, APC, Discussion board has urged President Bola Tinubu and members of the Nationwide Meeting to reject requires creation of state police within the nation.
The Discussion board, comprising APC stakeholders within the North-Central area, made the plea in response to Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang’s latest name for creation of state police.
Mutfwang had, whereas talking at a particular courtroom session organized to mark the graduation of the 2025/2026 authorized yr in Jos, declared that the time for state police has come.
The governor urged the President and members of the Nationwide Meeting to help the actualization of state police, saying it can assist to deal with insecurity in Plateau and different elements of the nation.
Nevertheless, the North-Central APC Discussion board has opposed the governor’s place.
In a press release launched in Abuja on Friday by its Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, a member of the APC marketing campaign council within the 2023 election, the North-Central APC Discussion board warned towards the hazards of introducing state police in Nigeria.
The Discussion board warned that state police would change into a software for the oppression of minority teams and opposition parts.
“The North-Central APC Discussion board has famous with alarm requires creation of state police in Nigeria. State police will solely result in anarchy and elevated impunity throughout the nation and consequently, these calls must be rejected by all proper considering Nigerians.
“State police will solely exist to serve the pursuits of these in energy, additional subjugating minority teams who’re already being oppressed in varied states throughout the nation.
“As we converse, many of the governors are utilizing machineries and devices of the state to intimidate, oppress and harass minority teams and the opposition of their states – we’re afraid of how far they are going to go once they now have a full fledged police power at their beck and name.
“State police will give them the license to do and undo.
“Even now the governors are ready to make use of the current federal police towards these they understand to be their political opponents.
“The police are used to destroy the companies and properties of these within the opposition and even different regulation abiding residents who should not within the camp of the governors. That is taking place even because the governors proceed to complain that they aren’t in command of the safety equipment of their states.
“If they will use the federal police, over which they don’t have direct management, to cope with the opposition, what they’re doing now will probably be baby’s play in comparison with what they are going to do once they have their very own police power – within the type of state police.
“We all know for a indisputable fact that state police will change into nothing greater than a prepared and keen software for the oppression of minority teams and opposition parts throughout the nation.
“State police will derail the democratic system as it will likely be used to suppress dissent and switch these in positions of authority, particularly the governors, into dictators.
“We dare say that, with state police, anyone who’s seen as an opponent of the federal government could be hounded and thrown into jail, or worse nonetheless, find yourself shedding their lives. Opposition will probably be criminalized,” elements of the assertion mentioned.
The APC Discussion board additional argued that creation of state police will probably be counter productive, significantly in secular societies like Plateau State and the opposite North-Central states.
The Discussion board warned that the subsequent step after state police will probably be ‘state faith’. In response to the group, governors will use state police to criminalize the actions of different non secular teams.
The assertion added, “We don’t need state police within the North-Central, which is a secular area the place you even have minority teams and individuals who follow totally different religions.
“We oppose state police as a result of now we have noticed that a few of our governors within the North-Central don’t wish to accommodate minorities, together with the non secular practices of minority communities.
“If you’re to arm these governors with state police, they are going to criminalize the normal practices and religions of minority teams.”
The North-Central APC Discussion board additional asserted that state police is a “harmful proposal” because of the angle of some governors who place non secular doctrines above Nigeria’s structure
The assertion added, “One of many greatest issues in Nigeria in the mean time is that many of the governors are practising faith greater than governance. They imagine in non secular doctrines greater than the structure of Nigeria.
“In varied elements of the nation, now we have noticed situations the place governors attempt to impose their very own non secular practices on adherents of different religions. Now, in the event you give them state police, armed with AK-47, what do you assume would be the destiny of anyone who doesn’t agree with them?
“These are the the reason why we – the North-Central APC Discussion board – are urging President Bola Tinubu and members of the Nationwide Meeting – particularly these senators and members of the Home of Representatives which might be very articulate and have the curiosity of the nation at coronary heart – to reject requires state police.
“Will probably be counter productive. State police is an evil wind that won’t blow anybody any good.
“We additionally additionally urge civil society organizations and all Nigerians to reject this proposal.”
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