Analyses of their manifestoes indicate that Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu virtually agree on what has to be done to make Nigeria safer, essentially differing only in the details.
Insecurity is perhaps the biggest of Nigeria’s manifold challenges. Whatever the next government plans to do, stemming the tide of violent criminalities across the country must be top of the agenda.
Speaking with Punch Newspaper over the report, a security expert, Timothy Avele, said the spread and figures showed that insecurity in Nigeria was getting out of hand. To be fair to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, insecurity was already an emergency when he was elected in 2015. The Boko Haram insurgency had raged for six years and terrorists were abducting children in rural schools and bombing targets in cities, including worship places, the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force and the office of the United Nations in Abuja.
Analyses of their manifestoes indicate that the four major presidential candidates virtually agree on what has to be done, essentially differing only in the details. The NNPP candidate goes further to propose the same number for the military. To keep them from idleness in peacetime, Mr Kwankwaso will deploy the relevant corps of the armed forces to civil duties such as civil engineering, healthcare and agricultural extension services.
Deploy state-of-the-art military technology to fight terrorists, bandits, insurgents and kidnappers; and To deal with cross-border crimes, adjust security modalities to address gaps and vulnerabilities arising from our obligations under the ECOWAS Protocol on the Movement of Persons.a. reforming the security sector, with particular emphasis on re-focusing the military on external threats and border protection, and the police on internal security threats and law enforcement;c.
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