December 17, (THEWILL) – A serving police officer and author, ACP Dashuwar Tepnyakas has called on the government to merge anti-graft agencies and the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, with the Nigeria Police for effective policing.
According to him, merging the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corp, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency into the police force will address issues of conflicts and rivalries existing among these agencies.
Tepnyakas made the advocacy during the public presentation of a 280-page book titled, “Police and Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria.”
Tepnyakas, a former Squadron Commander 11 Police Mobile Force in Càlabar who turned to writing after a doctoral degree from the University of Jos, averred that Nigeria can regain its lost glory in security management if the federal government heeds his recommendation.
He said, “The EFCC and the ICPC should be merged with the anti-fraud unit of the Nigeria Police Force and accorded the same level of funding,” he suggested, adding that “merging of Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC with the Traffic Warden Section of the Nigeria Police Force will make the institution formidable. Instead, duplicity, conflicts and rivalries amongst these agencies will continue, rendering all of them ineffective.”
The author recommended the merger of NSCDC with the police because their existence runs contrary to sections 214 & 215 of the 1999 constitution as amended which clearly states that there should be only one Nigeria Police Force for the country.
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