President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally requested the House of Representatives to repeal and re-enact the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (Establishment) Act. The move is aimed at radically transforming the funding, transparency, and operational reach of the nation’s primary police intervention agency.
The executive communication was read on the floor of the House during Wednesday’s plenary by the Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen.
In a letter dated April 1, 2026, the President explained that the existing 2025 framework required a comprehensive overhaul to better align with “present security imperatives.” The proposed legislation seeks to bridge critical gaps in the management and administration of the fund, which has often faced scrutiny over its efficiency in the past.
According to the President’s letter, the new bill focuses on four key pillars:
- Intensive training programs for personnel to meet 21st-century policing standards.
- Directing investment toward state-of-the-art security equipment and machinery.
- Implementing stricter legal frameworks for the management and sustainability of the fund.
- Ensuring that the living and working conditions of officers are prioritized to boost morale.
“The repeal and re-enactment is imperative to provide better management and administration of the fund… and to significantly enhance the operational capacity, accountability, and sustainability of the NPTF,” President Tinubu noted in the correspondence.
The transmission of this bill comes on the heels of the President’s recent address at the National Police Day Grand Parade, where he—represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima—declared a “permanent moral duty” to empower security agencies.
The administration’s current strategy appears to be twofold: modernizing the central federal police through this new Trust Fund bill while simultaneously engaging the National Assembly on the sensitive issue of State Police to tackle localized security threats.
Speaker Abbas Tajudeen has referred the bill for further legislative action. Given the President’s plea for “expedited consideration,” the House is expected to schedule the first reading and subsequent debates in the coming days.
If passed, the new Act is expected to replace the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (Establishment) Act of 2025, providing a more robust legal backbone for the agency to execute its mandate of equipping a “world-class” police force.
