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[© 2014- 2019 Ibadan Journal of Sociology]136Nigeria. In other words, policing must be made a concurrent matter
between the federal government and the state governments as was the
case in the country before 1966. A unified policing method, with its
attendant authoritarianism, is not sustainable in a polyglot society like
Nigeria. Two, the power to appoint the head of the police establishment
should no longer be solely in the hand of the President. Such power
should now be shared with the President by the Legislatures and other
independent bodies that are not answerable to the president.