Ekiti State of Governor Kayode Fayemi has said the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF is yet to take a position on the issue of state police, the forum’s Chairman,.
Fayemi disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents after the expanded Security Council meeting, presided by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Presidential Panel on Reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force had on June 3, submitted its report to the president.
The panel recommended the establishment of state and local government police among others things.
Fayemi said that each state has its own peculiar security challenge that needed a suitable policing arrangement.
He said that there was a committee looking into the report of the panel on reform of SARS, adding that the issues would be discussed at the next NEC meeting.
