The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill will transmit the proposed laws to the National Assembly inside two weeks, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has mentioned.
Gbajabiamila, who chairs the working group, disclosed this on Thursday whereas chatting with journalists after a steering committee assembly on the State House in Abuja.
He mentioned the invoice was about 90 per cent prepared, including that the committee would maintain one other assembly to handle excellent points earlier than transmitting it to the National Assembly.
“The National Policing Bill is more or less ready for transmission to the National Assembly. 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 per cent ready,” he mentioned.
“The governors have one or two observations, and we should be ready in about a week or so,” he added.
Gbajabiamila described the proposed laws as “the most consequential Bill of the administration so far.”
According to him, the invoice has undergone intensive deliberations in current weeks following the graduation of the working group’s steering committee conferences on August 3.
He expressed confidence that the excellent points could be resolved to pave the way in which for its transmission to the National Assembly.
On issues that some states may delay the passage of the Sixth Constitution Alteration Bill on state police, Gbajabiamila mentioned there was a nationwide consensus on the necessity for the constitutional amendments.
He was responding to experiences that solely about six states out of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory had handed the modification.
“I see no reason why anyone will want to have a rethink on it,” he mentioned.
The proposed constitutional modification is a part of the method in direction of establishing state police, a problem that has featured prominently in discussions on police reform and Nigeria’s safety challenges.
The assembly was attended by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq; Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State; Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State; and the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu.
Also current was the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Beatrice Jedy-Agba, who represented the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
Other individuals included the Chairman of the Policy Advisory Committee, Justice Abdullahi Liman (retd.); Head of the Nigeria Police Reform Secretariat, Professor Olu Ogunsakin; and Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Dr Lanre Smart.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Planning and Research and Secretary of the Committee, Nnadubem Moghalu, a consultant of the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, and Assistant Inspector-General of Police Abraham Nabhon Thomas, representing the National Security Adviser, additionally attended the assembly.
The deliberate transmission of the National Policing Bill comes amid ongoing efforts to advance police reforms and the proposed constitutional adjustments to permit states to determine their very own police forces.
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