Reactions have continued to trail President Muhammadu Buhari’s response and outward rejection of the request for state police as a means of ending insecurity in Nigeria.

According to Buhari, state police is not an option for the nation.

He made the remark in an exclusive interview with Channels Television on Wednesday this week.

Calls for state policing have been made by several Governors as a way to solve insecurity as Nigeria’s current policing system is controlled by the Federal Government.

The President, however, alluded to the tendency for Governors to abuse their powers as his argument against state police.

Gad Shamaki Peters – a security analyst in Nigeria in this interview with WADR, says the president’s concerns may be tacit but the country’s security architecture is overwhelmed.