(Credit: Governors forum)

Apparently responding to the growing calls for restructuring and growing insecurity in the country, the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has inaugurated a committee to look into modalities for the possible creation of state police in the country.

Speaking to State House correspondents shortly after their closed-door meeting with the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday night, Chairman of the forum and Zamfara state governor, Abdulaziz Yari said the six-man committee which was drawn from the six geopolitical zones of the country, have been saddled with the responsibility of finding solutions aimed at improving the efficiency of the Nigerian Police in combating the problems of insecurity in the country.

This decision was reached after the Inspector General had briefed them on the country’s security challenges for almost the entire duration of the meeting which lasted nearly four hours.

“We discussed and we received presentation from the Inspector General of Police. He made a presentation to us canvassing for support to introduce media outfits, radio and television for the force and as well as for the police to embrace technology instead of the manual way of doing things. The Inspector General of Police dominated the whole of our discussion today,” Yari said.

“So the Inspector General of Police made us to know that there is a kind of Trust Fund which is before the National Assembly and asked for our support and that of the members of the National Assembly, especially the House of Representatives.

“On our part, we have put a committee in place which is headed by the governor of Kwara, with the governors of Imo, Delta, Ekiti, Bauchi and Sokoto as members to lead the Committee on Police and take the matter before the Acting President for further action.

“There is also the issue of the kind of state police which is being discussed and we are coming with so many options which we are expecting the committee will consider to find a safe way of policing in Nigeria,” he added.