Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, says the presidential working group on police reform will transmit the national policing bill to the National Assembly within two weeks.
Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on
information and strategy, said in a statement that Gbajabiamila, who chairs the
working group, spoke on Thursday after a steering committee meeting at the
State House in Abuja.
“The National Policing Bill is more or less ready for
transmission to the National Assembly,” the statement quoted Gbajabiamila as
saying.
“We will probably have one more meeting after this to cross
the t’s and dot the i’s and make sure every area is covered. So, we are 90
percent ready.
“The governors have one or two observations, and we should
be ready in about a week or so.”
According to Onanuga, Gbajabiamila described the bill as
“the most consequential bill of the administration so far”.
He said the bill had undergone “strenuous exercises” in
recent weeks, following the commencement of deliberations by the working
group’s steering committee on August 3.
On the possibility of states delaying the passage of the
sixth constitution alteration bill on state police, Gbajabiamila said there was
a “national consensus” among Nigerians on the need for the constitutional
amendments.
“I see no reason why anyone will want to have a rethink on
it,” he said.
According to the statement, only about six states had passed
the amendment out of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Those at the meeting included AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq,
chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and governor of Kwara state;
Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun state; Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna state; and
Tunji Disu, inspector-general of police (IGP)
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