Nigeria, Aug. 4 -- The federal government has announced a seven-week roadmap, including a call for memoranda on how to seamlessly transition Nigeria from a unitary policing system to one that allows for state police.

Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga, in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES, said the "Presidential Working Group on the proposed National Policing Bill has invited Nigerians to submit memoranda and policy proposals as part of efforts to establish a comprehensive legal and operational framework for state policing."

President Bola Tinubu has made the creation of state police one of his cardinal programmes to address insecurity across Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES reports that a bill to alter the constitution and allow for state po...