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Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO) has challenged the President Buhari led administration to deal with the multiple security challenges prevalent in the country.
In a statement signed by the chairman, Eronmosele Idahosa the organization noted that growth cannot occur without security. Insecurity and the instability it breeds, will continue to scare away potential investors while making it nigh impossible to guarantee the basic rights of Nigerians to life and liberty.
The statement obtained by TheNewsGuru(TNG) reads in part:
“Nigeria has been scourged with multiple security challenges including terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, internecine ethnic skirmishes. These phenomena did not sprout up overnight. Causes range from lack of planning, communal distrust, corruption and incompetence to high youth unemployment, poverty, greed, nepotism, and compromised/ill-equipped security agencies. Experts have noted that Nigeria has not conducted a strategic analysis of its security systems and infrastructures since attainment of political independence in 1960. The result is that practices that even the British have jettisoned such as a centralized police force under the command of an Inspector General remain entrenched in Nigeria. Most advanced societies including the UK and the US have police at city, county and state levels so that they can effectively fight crime at local level with local personnel and command structure. Sadly, the systemic failures of our moribund policing and security architecture have enabled Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorist networks to run rampant.
NIDO Americas USA notes that growth cannot occur without security. Insecurity, and the instability it breeds, will continue to scare away potential investors while making it nigh impossible to guarantee the basic rights of Nigerians to life and liberty. We urge you to take immediate action as follows:
- Move Nigeria swiftly in the direction of graduated level of jurisdictional policing authority predicated on community police philosophy which the Federal Government has sought to introduce since 2016. This is universal best practice. Police officers should be recruited and trained toserve in the localities/communities in which they have vested interest. Security officials should live in their jurisdiction and every local and state government should have a public registry of repeat violent offenders. Customs and Border patrols must be sanitized and overhauled to secure Nigeria’s porous borders and restore some modicum of geographical integrity. The mismanagement of the National Identification Number (NIN) scheme has, unfortunately, not helped in this regard.
- Corruption continues to have a deleterious effect on our national security from misappropriation of funds budgeted for purchase of weapons to the institutionalization of nativism as a cardinal principle for appointment to sensitive, command positions. The campaign against corruption should be ongoing, total, non-discriminatory, and non-partisan. It should become ingrained in our national consciousness as a people”.