For Nigeria also to win war against her existential security challenges, it is time for leaders across board to do more of the work and little of the talk.
Far more than at any time since the end of Nigeria’s protracted civil war in 1970, the country now faces profound, existential and multifaceted security challenges exemplified by bloodthirsty Boko Haram, banditry, kidnapping and other crimes that threaten its existence. The recent attack on the convoy of Governor Babangana Zulum of Borno State has heightened the debate on insecurity as it has raised the level of conversations and engagement to an apogee.
These calls, coupled with events that led to them, have unfortunately provided a recipe for explosion, making Nigeria’s cumbersome system difficult to be relied upon for the security of lives and property. But how did Nigeria get to this point? Where is government in all of these conversations? Government everywhere and leaders elsewhere are saddled first and foremost with protection of lives and property of the citizens. What remains of a government which cannot secure its people from marauders and murderers? This implies that the most essential purpose of government is basically protection of citizens against internal aggression and external insurrection.
Insecurity, like other existential issues, are better solved and resolved using both the technical approach typified by various security apparatus ranging from the military and the paramilitary to their funding, equipment and boosting their morale and patriotism. The other is the use of adaptive techniques which has to do with holistic assessment of the causes and factors thatled to the scourge.
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