Osun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr Ajibola Basiru has called for creation of State Police to curb incessant crimes in the Nigeria.
Dr. Basiru made this call while delivering his address at a special Valedictory Court Session in Honour of Late Justice Francis Adeleke Adedeji (retired) at the High Court Complex, Osogbo.
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Attorney General said ” State Police in the present day society of ours is but a necessity and more importantly in the face of incessant attacks and threatened Violence and heinous crimes in many parts of the country”.
It is often said that crime is local and may require local response in the prevention and investigation of such crimes.
Dr. Basiru quoted section of the constitution section 14(2)(b) which places on every government the responsibility of the security and welfare of the people, inclusive of the State Government while the prosecuting powers is vested by virtue of section 211 in the State through the office of the Attorney General of the State and yet the State do not even have policing power.
He also mentioned that the State constitutionally saddled with responsibility of the Security and welfare of the people do not have Control over the apparatus of police.
Dr. Basiru added that delay in criminal prosecutions sometimes based on indiscriminate transfer of Investigative Police Officers, IPO out of the State without recourse to the prosecuting authority of the State saddled with responsibility to prosecute offences.
Incidents of herdsmen attacking farmers and killing them on their farmlands definitely calls for an attention of the Federal Government to act fast before the crisis degenerates into war.
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