Mr Tinubu, in his manifesto, pledges to create an anti-terrorists battalion among other measures to tackle insecurity.
In separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES, the analysts unanimously agreed that the security situation in the North needs to be tackled headlong.In the North-east zone, a 13 year old Boko Haram insurgency has devastated the region leading to the deaths and displacement of millions of people.
“We will mobilise the totality of our national security, military and law enforcement assets to protect all Nigerians from danger and from the fear of danger. We will expand and improve upon the use of technology, enhance recruitment of personnel, and bolster existing agencies and systems to achieve this fundamental national security goal,” he said in the policy document.
He said the steps being proposed by most of the presidential candidates have been used by the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari with no appreciable results. “Soldiers are now overstretched; we’re just using them in the wrong direction. This is the eleventh year of banditry and there has been no weapon that was not used by this government to no avail,” he added.
He said the plans didn’t capture the issue of corruption in the security circle which he believes hinders the fight against banditry. On his part, a senior lecturer of Political Science and International Relations, Jamilu Abdussalam, said the security plan of the APC standard bearer was well articulated and could work towards addressing the problems.
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