Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

With the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ex­pect­ed to come to an end in the com­ing weeks, the Gov­ern­ment is turn­ing its at­ten­tion to tar­get­ed crime-fight­ing mea­sures in hotspots. At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie re­vealed on Wednes­day that Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) will be in­tro­duced, pro­vid­ing law en­force­ment with ex­pand­ed le­gal au­thor­i­ty to ad­dress crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty in hotspot com­mu­ni­ties, sim­i­lar to a mod­el used in Ja­maica.

At to­day’s House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives sit­ting will be a de­bate on The Law Re­form (Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions) (Spe­cial Se­cu­ri­ty and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Mea­sures) Bill, 2026, which im­ple­ments mea­sures that will fol­low the SoE, which ends Jan­u­ary 31.