Nigerian Senate To Amend Constitution To Allow Creation Of State, Community Police

The Senate

The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday set a two-week target to amend the 1999 Constitution to enable the creation of state and community police in Nigeria.

This move is part of the outcome of the lawmakers’ deliberation on the security challenges confronting the country.

Hundreds of Nigerians have lost their lives in 2018 in clashes mostly involving herdsmen and farmers.

“Today, my colleagues and I in the eighth Senate resolved to begin the process of amending the Constitution to allow for the creation of State and Community Police. This is following our debate on solutions to the killings across the country.” the Senate President Bukola Saraki said.

Saraki vowed that the senate would continue to hold the Executive accountable over the persistent killings in parts of the country.

He also said the senators “Urge the Executive arm of Government to apprehend and prosecute all perpetrators and sponsors of violence, no matter how highly placed they are.”






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