He said while he had always advocated state police creation, there must be effective checks to ensure that the purpose is not defeated.
“Like El-Rufai, I see some underlying dangers. Without mentioning names, there are one or two governors who have private militias that can confront the Federal Government to a standstill without state police. “What happens if such governors have state police in addition? That’s my only fear; otherwise the principle is good for federalism.”
He said: “That is what they have to think about carefully. There should be some form of control over state police outside the sole command of the governors.“They should think of some form of independent control so that directives will not just be issued by the governors alone.