President Bola Tinubu is expected to take the next major step in Nigeria’s proposed policing reforms on September 3, when the draft national policing bill is scheduled to be presented to him for approval.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists at the State House after a meeting of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill.
“The resulting executive bill package is scheduled for presentation to the President on the third of September. Subject to his approval, a national consultation on the completed draft will follow,” Gbajabiamila, who also chairs the Presidential Working Group, said.
“But I think that we have tweaked that so the national consultation will come before the President’s final approval, after which the text and supporting materials will be revised and prepared for formal transmission to the National Assembly,” Gbajabiamila said.
According to him, the approved work programme is a seven-week, milestone-driven exercise running from July 27 to September 14, 2026, with legal drafting, policy research, data analysis and implementation modelling taking place simultaneously.
He said the final package would go beyond a single bill and include schedules, an explanatory memorandum, a legal audit, a consequential amendments matrix, clause-by-clause analysis, a state readiness framework, a fiscal and implementation note, an implementation work plan, a validation report, a risk register and a controlled digital archive.
