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Senate passes bill establishing state police
The senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish state-controlled police services in the country.
The bill sought to amend the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of state police services across the federation.
The amendment, if subsequently endorsed by the required number of state Houses of Assembly, would pave the way for the establishment of state police in addition to the Nigeria Police Force.
The bill came amid increasing calls for policing reforms and the domestication of security agencies, in tackling security challenges across the country.
The senate adopted manual voting for the constitutional amendment process, as senators stood individually, announce their names and publicly made known their positions on the proposed bill.
Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele said the procedure was necessary to ensure no senator was excluded from the process.
“There is a need to also ensure transparency both within ourselves as people that will be performing this major constitutional responsibility, as well as members of the public.
“Rather than go by way of electronic voting, which obviously is not the case today, and disenfranchise a few or so of our colleagues whose machines are not working.
“I am moving that we give every distinguished senator the opportunity to answer his or her father’s name by doing manual voting,” Bamidele said while moving the motion for the adoption of manual voting.
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