Kwara State’s House of Assembly has approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide a legal framework for a state police service. The bill seeks to amend Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution to give the arrangement constitutional backing. Lawmakers approved it during a plenary session on Tuesday. Before the vote, Speaker Yakubu Danladi-Salihu read a letter from the Clerk of the National Assembly concerning the proposed alteration. The assembly’s approval advances the measure within the national constitutional process, although the report does not describe the next procedural stage. Passing the bill does not itself set out the practical arrangements needed to put the police service into operation. It also does not indicate when the new framework would take effect.