Disruption Of G-7 Govs Meeting: Kwankwaso Wants State Police

One of the leading members of G7 and Kano State governor, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reversed his earlier position of not supporting the idea for state police.
Governor Kwankwaso changed his opinion in view of the recent development where the divisional police officer (DPO) of Asokoro division disrupted a meeting of the five serving governors, senators and former governors.
“Amaechi and Jang were right when they called for state police. I now declare my support for state police legislation. This is the chapter that should be re-opened at National Assembly. States require their own police,” Kwankwaso stated.
He made this known to newsmen when he received the delegation of Senate Committee on Police Affairs who were in the state for an oversight function at Wudil Police University, Kano, under the leadership of Senator Igwe N. Paulinius at Government House, Kano, yesterday.
Governor Kwankwaso has expressed his government commitment towards harmonious working relation with the police since the aftermath of the Kano January attack, saying that his government had donated 67 operational veh uch in rehabilitating and rebuilding places that were destroyed during the attack which claims lives of security operatives and innocent civilians.
He revealed that the state government has spent hundreds of millions for Joint Task Force operation in the state.
Kwankwaso appealed to the Senate committee to adequately fund the police and continue to train and retrain the police personnel for effective security service delivery and to meet the modern world standard of policing.
“I appeal to Nigerian police to behave and work like Nigeria police not to behave like ‘Villa’ police or anybody’s police. Police belongs to all of us,” Kwankwaso stated.
He reminded that all the state governments allocate one percent of their respective budgets to fund police in their respective states, and urged the senate committee to increase police budget and ensure hundred percent implementation of police budget.

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