Nigeria's security debate may have entered a new phase.
For years, advocates of state police argued that a centralized policing structure was struggling to meet the security needs of a vast and diverse country. Now that the House has moved on the proposal, attention should shift from politics to implementation.
Success will depend on recruitment standards, training, funding, oversight, intelligence sharing, and protections against political interference. Creating state police is the easy part; building trusted and effective state police institutions is the real test.
Did I just come up with a clever idiom?
sweat in sea - ๐ด๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐ฉ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ก.