Former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, says the present constitution of the country does not give President Muhammadu Buhari the powers to create state police as many have been clamouring for, IgbereTV reports
The former Presidential aide who made the assertion in a statement in Calabar, Cross River State on Wednesday, disagreed with those calling on Buhari to create state police, stating categorically that such would not happen unless there was an amendment of the constitution.
“My constitutional law lessons taught me that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has no modicum of power to set to create a State Police, as some of us have been advocating,” Obono-Obla said.
“The Nigeria Police Force is created by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 (as amended). Also, Police is an item under the exclusive legislative list in the first schedule of the Constitution.
