Senator Shehu Sani has expressed his reservations over the creation of state police. 

In a post shared on his X handle, the politician mentioned some of the ills associated with the creation of the state police. He wrote

‘’The idea that State Police will solve all the security problems in the Country is a mirage.What magic can the state police perform that the military,police and civil defence couldn’t?..The State police will simply be an armed wing of the ruling party of each state.Its a recipe for anarchy.

The State police will be used by the Governors to persecute the opposition, to harass ‘non indigenes’, to rig elections and to counter the federal police in case of conflict of interest between the federal government and the state. Most of the state ruling party thugs will be recruited into the state police.”