The Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said Nigeria will require an additional 554,353 personnel to adequately staff the proposed State Police system. Abiodun also called for the establishment of a dedicated State Police Take-Off Fund to ensure that disparities in the financial capacity of states do not undermine the proposed security architecture. He spoke on Thursday while delivering the keynote address at the posthumous 70th birthday colloquium of the late former Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, at the International Conference Centre, University of Ibadan. The colloquium was organised under the theme, “Fundamentals and Governance of State Policing: Towards a New Architecture for National Security in Nigeria.”
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