President Muhammadu Buhari has denied approving State Police and Local Government Police, after receiving committee report on Police reforms, as he refutes earlier media reports that he has approved State Police.
In a statement released a few hours ago by the Presidency, President Muhammadu Buhari according to the statement, only received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), where the President requested that the report be studied and a white paper produced within 3 months.
The statement also said that:
“President Buhari’s specific directive is that a three-man panel be set up to produce the white paper.
The report of the white paper committee will form the basis of the decisions of the government on the many recommendations, including the setting up of State Police and local government police made by the Ojukwu panel.
Until a white paper is produced, it will be premature and pre-emptive to suggest that the recommendations contained in the report have been approved by the President in part or whole.”