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He said state police was long overdue in Nigeria, insisting that the time had come for the creation of state police in Nigeria as part of the critical solutions to security challenges in the country.

Aiyedatiwa stated this at the Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos.

This was contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Ebenezer Adeniyan, on Monday.

According to the statement, the governor, who was the chairman of the event, delivered a lecture at the Breakout Session on Ondo State, tagged: “Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu Leadership series: Is state police a solution to national insecurity?”

He said, “The centralised policing structure, once envisioned as the protector and servant of the people, has proven inadequate in the face of the complex and evolving security challenges of our time. It has failed to shield us from the marauders who strike fear into the hearts of our citizens. It is limited in its capacity to bring to justice those who have turned our highways into death traps and our farmlands into killing fields.

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