Your write-up on: “Of State Police And Armed Bandits Brouhaha” of September 13,2025, makes an interesting read. However, the military’s incursion into the political administration of Nigeria was/is the reason why the police is still at comatose state. The military castrated the police so much so that the civilian populace was never conscious of the fact that the police as a law enforcement institution was statutorily meant to maintain law and order in the country.
The relics of the military’s castration of the police weakened the psychic of officers and rank and file of the police in the post military era in the country where police men and women erroneously see themselves as weapons for settling civil causes, land grabbing, and as unbelievably debts recovery agents.
The statutory duty of the police is only a flash in the pan in the face of criminal minded gentlemen in uniform.
The challenge of the archaic police institution was overwhelming for Lagos State that the dominant political tendency that was in opposition had to think out of the box by deploying ‘Federal Might’ at that period under Bola Tinubu as governor of the centre of excellence to destroy an outfit called Rapid Response Squad (RRS) that is formed and still funded and equipped by the Lagos State.
For me, the police as a law enforcement institution has become an elephant with clay feet that we must do away with by establishing a modern, young, vibrant and patriotic State Civil Protective Corps that will surely prepare the ground for the final liquidation of ‘Kill and Go’ that is euphemistically called Nigeria Police Force(NPF).
By the way, why is it that it’s only when the core north is being smoked that the agitation for State Police deceptively gathered momentum?
The core North elites are centrists that arrogantly but unwisely believe that other parts of Nigeria exist for them. The hen will soon come home to roost
•Lekan Alabi Esq is a Legal Practitioner & Consultant with office at Plot 142, Oba Akran Avenue
Ikeja-Lagos
