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By Jonas Ike, Abuja
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A Security expert, Professor Ado Ibrahim Abubakar, has called on the Federal Government, to as a matter of urgency, reduce the budget on security at the nation’s foreign missions. He says doing so that it will augur well for the purposes of internal security.
He made the call during a workshop on insecurity in Nigeria organised by the House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence at the National Assembly.
The expert, who is a lecturer and holds a doctorate degree in Security Engineering, spoke on the topic: security challenges and engineering applications in national development. He says that security is now everybody’s business in every part of the world and particularly in Nigeria.
He regretted that the Federal Government annually budgets billions of Naira on the protection of its foreign missions but gains nothing from it whereas the British Embassy in Nigeria is making billions of Naira on this issue.
He called for more converted efforts to tackling insecurity by all stakeholders in the security circle adding that the nation has to be careful in addressing security issues.
“Nigeria is supposed to be generating over N50 billion Naira on security, instead we are spending trillions of Naira on security. You cannot say that you are fighting poverty whereas you are inducing people on it. We have induced corruption in Nigeria. We have official inducement of corruption in Nigeria”.
Also speaking at the event Mr P.U Umor of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, noted that the federal government should ensure effective security deployment for the conduct of the 2019 general elections.
Also in a presentation at the event, a Superintendent of Police Mr Bukar Ntasri who represented the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mr Mohammed Adamu, averred that there should be constant training and retraining of security personnel for election duties.
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