Kidnappers migrated to South-West for easy ransom –Prof Akanji, Director, IPSS, UI September1st
The Director, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Prof Tajudeen Akanji, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Mediators and Conciliators, and a fellow of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice.
If others are not active, the army should ensure they train together with others, coordinating expertise and resources to be able to fight insecurity as a team and plan as a team and believing in the capability of each component to deliver.The government must be one that is responsive. The Government must use available resources around them to tackle insecurity but unfortunately, we have the government deficit here. The government must also be interested in addressing the needs of the people.
But you will see the situation whereby the academia is also exposed to the contradictions when lecturers are not paid salaries; they need to struggle like every other person, with these, they may not be able to contribute much. There must be synergy and even if the universities are doing their best and the army and the government are not there it won’t yield any positive result.
We have all these indices and many of them are precise. In fact, by the day, they are getting more and more precise. So, it is just the debasement of academic institutions and researchers that is limiting our efforts. How much are they putting into research institutes? Just check the budget of their universities elsewhere and you will be amazed at what they have, but here, everything is politicised. They don’t want to run universities in the standard format it should be.
When you listen to people talking about banditry and insurgency, you will realise that this is happening because of the presence of ungoverned species. I can tell you that Nigeria officially has about 168 border posts and out of these border posts, about 60 are manned. Majority of them are unmanned. So you should expect that people will come from other countries to terrorise you.
Do you know that some people are beginning to see kidnapping as a business and businessmen will always look for where their businesses will thrive? They have discovered that when they kidnap someone in the South-West, they will get ransom easily. When they see that the government was attacking them in other regions, they started looking for other places where they can get soft targets and that was why they moved to the region.
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