Nigeria, May 21 -- Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwoland, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government to reject the proposed creation of state police.

Oluwo, while warning Tinubu against assenting to "such an inimical proposal capable of undermining the exclusive legislative power of the Federal Government on security", urged him to recruit more police officers and improve the welfare package of the Nigerian Police Force.

Oluwo, in a statement on Monday by his press secretary, Alli Ibraheem, alleged that autocratic governors are likely to abuse the process and destabilize the existing cooperation amongst the state authorities.

According to him, state policing has a dire consequence and may lead to civil...