{"id":2701,"date":"2026-10-28T18:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/state-police-bauchi-assembly-approves-constitutional-amendment\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:30:50","slug":"state-police-bauchi-assembly-approves-constitutional-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/state-police-bauchi-assembly-approves-constitutional-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"State police: Bauchi Assembly approves constitutional amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56.853607161664\">\n<p>The Bauchi State House of Assembly has approved the recommendations on the proposed amendment of the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of a state police.\n<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was presented during plenary on Wednesday by the Deputy Speaker and interim Chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendment, Jamilu Ummaru.\n<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the resolution, Ummaru stressed the need to strengthen Nigeria\u2019s security architecture, noting that the establishment of state police would provide additional support in addressing the country\u2019s growing security challenges.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe proposed establishment of state police is aimed at strengthening Nigeria\u2019s security architecture and providing additional support in addressing the country\u2019s growing security challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ummaru explained that the proposed amendment sought to establish a constitutional framework that would enable state governments to establish their own police services to complement the existing federal security structure. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe amendment seeks to provide a constitutional framework that will allow state governments to establish their own police services to complement the existing federal security structure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The deputy speaker added that the House\u2019s approval reflected its position on the proposed constitutional amendment and formed part of the constitutionally prescribed process for amending the 1999 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The approval followed the consideration of the proposed constitutional amendment transmitted to the state legislature for deliberation and approval in line with the constitutional provisions governing the amendment process.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#c7b3afa2a2a3aeb3a8b587b7b2a9a4afa9a0e9a4a8aa\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"8cf8e4e9e9e8e5f8e3feccfcf9e2efe4e2eba2efe3e1\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bauchi State House of Assembly has approved the recommendations on the proposed amendment of the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of a state police. The resolution was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}