ABUJA - Member of House of Reps. Gerald Irona (PDP-Imo) has said that anyone canvassing for the establishment of state police was an anarchist.
Irona, who is the Vice Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Gas, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Abuja on Sunday that people canvassing for state police had evil agenda and do not want the corporate existence of Nigeria.
He said that if state police was institutionalised, the component states would constitute themselves into a nation.
``This issue of state police is being canvassed by people with hidden agenda, if legalised, it will not be long before Nigeria disintegrates."
Anybody calling for the establishment of state police has an evil intention to derail the corporate existence of Nigeria, " he said.
He debunked the allegation by some Nigerians that the existing federal police was being used to the advantage of the ruling PDP.
The lawmaker, who cited the just concluded Edo governorship election as an example, said that in spite of the presence of the federal police,the result of the election was not affected.
On the call for the reform of local government administration, he said that this tier of government was being used by state governors and the Houses of Assembly as a slush fund.
He said that most state governors had refused to conduct local government council elections in complete disregard to the Nigerian constitution.
The legislator said that for the third tier of government to be viable and meet the need of the people, it required a total autonomy.
" It is either, it is given a full autonomy or scrapped so that the states can create and fund themselves without getting funds from the federation account," he said.
He said that the component states of the federation have a great role to play in the reform of local government administration.
``The reform does not end with the amendment of the constitution by the National Assembly, the states have a great role to play in the reform," he said.
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