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The Federal Government has set up a committee to work on the decentralisation of the Nigerian Police.
The committee which comprised seven state governors and the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, was set up at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting chaired by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday.
A statement issued by the Acting President’s media aide, Laolu Akande, said that “short of constitutional amendment, the Federal Government and State Governors have resolved to explore how the operations of the Nigeria Police can be decentralised in order to improve the level of policing and security in the country.”
Members of the Committee include the Governors of Zamfara, Ondo, Plateau, Ebonyi, Katsina, Edo and Borno states, who will work with the IGP, Ibrahim Idris.
The statement said that at the NEC meeting, the National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.), who briefed the council on security matters, assured that the Intelligence Community and Security Agencies will continue to sustain current efforts to mitigate the security challenges across the country.
Briefing State House correspondents, the Deputy Governor of Benue state, Mr. Benson Abounu, commended the efforts of the security agencies at mitigating the spate of insecurity in the state.
He especially thanked the security agencies for the thoroughness of Operation Whirl-Stroke, mounted by the Nigerian Army, in Benue State for their decisive operation which, according to him, has brought relative peace to the state.
The statement quoted Abounu as saying: “The security situation in Benue State has improved significantly. Now many Internally Displaced Persons have returned home, the state is relatively calm”.