 A retired military officer and security analyst, Colonel Stan Labo says Nigeria is ready for state policing. He said this earlier when he appeared on plus politics. Colonel Stan Labo said the federal government is not spending enough funds on the Nigerian police force and the reform is needed immediately. He added that the Lagos state has done well through its state security trust fund. How much of funding, let's be frank, is the federal government pumping into the police force at the various states? Most states are taking over the funding of the police. Besides paying off salaries by the federal government, what else? If I use Lagos state as an example, God bless the states. I must say, they just have fantastic leaders. I don't know how they treat. The initiative that came up here through the Lagos state police force and so on has made the police force in Lagos something else. They've been able to come up with the arrest arrangement and all sorts of things with the state government mobilizing the entire business community within the states. I was thinking by now some serious reforms would have been going on in the business force, especially after the NSAR's bitter experience we had. I was thinking the federal government would have learnt its lessons. I began to see how we go straight into police reforms. It's a great deal of reform required in the national security sector, especially with the police. I don't see any serious reforms going on where I would have said maybe a lot of money is going on into training, these that and so on. No. In nearly every state where today we have the military complementing, the effort of the police and wealth, we know how much state governments are spending and that's why some of the governors are saying allow us to have our own police force and then this money or this entire bonus we are pumping in at the various state level who go into our own police. The federal government could lay out the guidelines but not say give them a free hand. Our politicians are not as mature as that. Governors, they are like children, they are like let's not bow to something else. The point is is look, we are ripe for subnational state police. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.