PDP Govs declare new police act unconstitutional

Governors elected on the platform of the PDP have faulted the deduction of 0.5 percent of revenue accruing to the federation account into the newly established police trust fund.

The governors urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the national assembly to immediately repeal section 4 of the Nigeria police trust fund (establishment) act, 2019.

It is the said section 4 of the act that authorises the president to deduct 0.5 percent of the total revenue accruing to the federation account for the police trust fund.

In a release by the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state, the governors described the deduction as patently unconstitutional.