INTERVIEW: How Nigeria can tackle insecurity – Lawmaker
Pictures of Adejoroh Adeogun, House of Representatives deputy chairman, committee on national security and intelligence.Adejoroh Adeogun is a member of the House of Representatives who represents Akoko South-East/Akoko South-West federal constituency of Ondo State., he was recently appointed deputy chairman of the House Committee on Security and National Intelligence., he talks about steps that can be taken to curb insecurity in Nigeria.
For me, the first issue is, how do we secure Nigeria? Making Nigeria secured means that we would be able to at least establish businesses in such a way that someone who has funds to invest would come and invest in our place.
I will give you an example of a typical problem we have in Nigerian; security. We are not employing technology to solve our problems, the typical one is when someone commits a crime with a footprint, can the Nigerian law enforcement agencies use those footprints to get that person? They can’t. They do not have the database, they do not have the training, they do not have the capacity to solve the problems.
Pictures of Adejoroh Adeogun, House of Representatives deputy chairman, committee on national security and intelligence. The criminals masquerading as herdsmen are the ones committing the atrocities we are complaining about. Let me give you an example of the priest kidnapped in Enugu State and then people went around saying they were kidnapped by herdsmen only to find out that they were Igbo boys.
Q: The perception out there is that the National Assembly has not done enough. They have held several security summits and invited security chiefs on different occasions. What is the new thing you are bringing to the table and how will you be able to influence the institution to get things done security-wise?: First, the perception of members of the public is not always the right perception. But I’m not saying that they are wrong all the time.
We need to get that idea of the need for urgency. I have that idea that we always believe that we have time. You have issues with insecurity and it is treated with some methods of slow reaction. We should not be reacting, we should be proactive. I think that is what the National Assembly will bring into the relationship between the executive and the legislature.
We have to look at this vis-a-vis our population. We have a large population and we have policemen who do not have the resources and training and manpower to protect, so the military is brought in to assist them. The only thing is that we have to find ways to raise the resources and increase the revenue base of the country so that the country can provide funds to back up what is needed.: I’m aware that there are two or three times where attempts were made to amend the Nigerian constitution to provide for state policing and it’s been opposed by parts of the country.
For now, most of our political leaders don’t understand that it is not about them, it is all about the people.
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