Governor Darius Ishaku
Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has thrown his weight behind the establishment of State Police across the country.
He made this known while speaking at a meeting with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
He expressed confidence that creating state police would go a long way to tackle repeated killings and bring criminality to the barest minimum in the country.
Ishaku aid: “We must keep the country as one and in peace and, therefore, as of a necessity, some structural defence must have to be amended.
“I’m sitting here as a governor, but I cannot control one troop. In America where we copied the constitution, there is state police, there is local government police, and there is federal police.
“What is beyond the local government police, the state police steps in and what is beyond the state police, the federal police steps in. What is beyond the federal police, then that is when the attention of Mr President is called in.”
He said he was frustrated over the security situation in Taraba despite the effort of the police, noting that it has crippled the development of the state.
The governor described the inability of the state to deal with the challenge as very worrisome.