Why We Adopted Community Policing In Nasarawa – Governor

Nasarawa State Governor, Baha’ullah Sule, has disclosed why the state adopted community policing strategies in tackling its security challenges.

Sule, who on Thursday after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, said there were no plans for regional policing between the state and its neighbours.

He said he was in the Presidential Villa to brief the president on the security situation in the state and to thank him for approving the establishment of Police Mobile Force Training School in the state.

“The reason why I and my big brother, Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue State, met recently was to look at the security challenges that we have at the border; particularly between the Tivs and the Alago nation and the rest of the people of Nasarawa.

“The good understanding that we have extended to the problem between the herders also and the anti-open grazing law they have in Benue which we have discussed in full details.

“We have an excellent understanding because, at the meeting, we had representatives of Alago and representatives of the Tivs; the representatives of the Miyetti Allah, the Fulanis who were there and everyone actually embraced the outcome of the meeting.

“Coming specifically to the issue of having regional police, no, we strongly believe in Nasarawa that we have to start with community policing which we already have.

“We do have the community policing that which are empowering and hoping that down the line, it may go into state police, but for now we are looking at it at the community level.

“Maybe it will go to the local government level; village level and the rest of that, and those are the kind of people that we have; so far, so good for us.’’