By Chinelo Obogo
A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has said he will continue opposing any plans to create state police.
In an interview with The Sun, the former national secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), said he plans to take his campaign against the creation of state police to the National Assembly of the need arises.
“I will die in fighting for stopping the creation of state police. In fact, I intend to go to the National Assembly personally because for the last 46 years, I have been fighting the issue of the creation of state police. I just want to give you one example: just take a particular former governor in Plateau as governor and there is state police. Can anybody, any tribe, apart from his Berom, be allowed to live in Plateau? Or can anybody, a religion outside his own, be allowed to practise their religion if that man has the control of local police,” he said.
There have been a clamour especially from state governors for the creation of state police. However, opponents of the proposal say it would give state governors more powers to use against those they consider rivals.