KACRAN OPPOSES STATE POLICE PROPOSAL, CALLS FOR EMPLOYMENT CREATION AND DIALOGUE
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By: Muftau Fatimo
The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria (KACRAN) has opposed the renewed call for the establishment of state police, maintaining that job creation and dialogue remain the most effective solutions to addressing insecurity in the country.
In a statement issued in Damaturu and signed by its National President, Khalil Mohammed Bello, the group said its position followed months of field consultations across the North West and North Central regions.
“While we acknowledge the urgency behind this debate, KACRAN believes that dialogue and massive job creation offer a more sustainable, cost-effective and unifying path to peace than the creation of state police,” the statement read.
KACRAN noted that the demand for state police first emerged during the First Republic (1960–1966) and has resurfaced with each rise in insecurity.
However, it argued that Nigeria’s earlier decades of relative peace were not due to state police, but to stronger community structures and economic opportunities
Nigeria lived in relative peace and harmony in earlier decades not because of state police, but because the root causes of conflict were better managed,” Bello said.
It said insecurity is largely driven by poverty, idleness, farmer-herder competition and exclusion, issues it believes are better addressed through dialogue and employment rather than policing.
The association also warned that pastoralists would be most vulnerable in states with anti-grazing laws, and that state police could be abused by authoritarian state actors.
KACRAN called on the Federal Government to increase recruitment into the Police and Armed Forces, prioritise large-scale job creation and food security, and strengthen dialogue mechanisms through traditional rulers and community leaders.
“KACRAN remains a reliable partner to the Federal Government and all security agencies in the collective effort to secure Nigeria for all its people,” Bello said.
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