Former Defense Minister Aliyu Gusau has blamed Nigeria’s complexity for the rise in insecurity incidents, emphasizing that the country is too complicated for the police to secure alone.
This came as Chief Olabode George, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated that Nigeria was facing a perilous predicament as a result of the recent upsurge in kidnappings in the nation.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Community Protection Guard graduation ceremony—a community-based security organization founded by the government of Zamfara State—Gusau stated that the nation’s security approach needed to be reconsidered.
Nigeria is a challenging country to secure, according to Gusau, with an estimated population of 223.8 million and a varied topography spanning 923,768 square kilometers. It is therefore quite difficult to expect a single police force to successfully monitor and oversee such a vast and complicated country. In the interest of our nation, it is now time for us to reconsider this course of action.
Innocent lives are currently killed every day in Nigerian theaters as a result of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery, organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and cultism. Even though offenders can now operate with impunity, more military deployment to hotspots hasn’t produced the intended effects.
But in order for it to be successful, significant thought should go into developing suitable support systems for all of them. We have to realize that maintaining security requires everyone’s cooperation—not just the police or the armed forces.
George, for his part, declared that Nigeria was on “the precipice of total collapse” on Wednesday at a press conference in Lagos.
on Tuesday, when two monarchs in the state were slain in what was thought to be a botched kidnapping attempt, several pupils were kidnapped by gunmen.
Six students, three private school teachers, and their bus driver were reportedly kidnapped by the gunmen on Monday night while they were leaving Eporo-Ekiti.
George expressed shock at what kidnapping was turning the nation into and demanded that in order to combat the current security issues in the nation, state and community policing be established nationwide as well as the South-West local security group, also known as Amotekun, be equipped with cutting-edge weapons.
“What can Amotekun do to combat kidnappers in the South without weapons?” he questioned. Now is the perfect moment to review this. Do we also require state police? Absolutely, President Tinubu shouldn’t avoid it.
He ought to go obtain the reports from the constitutional conference as well. One of the many roadblocks carelessly impeding the nation’s progress is
“One guy cannot be in charge of the nation’s security in its entirety. The governors would travel there, given the current state of unrest and all that, but their authority is restricted.
“It is federal police, even if you deploy the force. The states have to be ineffective before you can send in the federal police. In the US, they operate like this. One cannot imagine the impact that community policing has. We are on the verge of complete collapse right now, so why can’t we do this?