Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says Lagos State is ready for the creation of state police, adding that the state boasts of at least 10,000 men to be immediately deployed once the Federal Government and the National Assembly firm up constitutional provisions for the establishment of state police.
Sanwo-Olu, who stated this on Thursday during a media chat, said he eagerly awaits the creation of state police in the country.
According to him, men of the Lagos Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC), a uniformed security agency established by a law of the Lagos State House of Assembly in 2016, would be pulled out to join state police.
Sanwo-Olu also hinted that already those men provide intelligence at our state security meetings and can imagine what happens if that is turned around to a proper security agency.
State police has been a subject of controversy since the Seventh National Assembly and has failed to make it through the amendment phase.
This week, a Constitution Amendment Bill to introduce state police scaled second reading in the House of Representatives.
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