After President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced his Special Advisers and named Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the Special Adviser on Security, many were confused if
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Born on 21 November 1960, Nuhu Ribadu was an intelligence police operative, who came to the national limelight as a star prosecutor at the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, also known as the Oputa Panel, inaugurated in 1999 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Before Ribadu’s recent appointment, other former retired police officers had been appointed as National Security Advisers: Gambo Jimeta from Adamawa State, during the tenure of Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, and Ismaila Gwarzo from Kano State, under Chief Ernest Shonekan and General Sani Abacha.
Section 4 of the National Security Agencies Act, 1986, which disbanded the erstwhile Nigerian Security Organisation and created these three intelligence agencies, specifically empowered the President, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, to appoint a Coordinator on National Security. In response to the Boko Haram challenge, the Terrorism Prevention Act 2011, as amended in 2013, was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan. Part I, Section 2 states: “The Office of the National Security Adviser shall be the coordinating body for all security and law enforcement agencies and under this act shall provide support to all relevant security, intelligence, law enforcement agencies and military services to prevent and combat acts of terrorism in Nigeria.
It is necessary to reaffirm the fact that inter-agency cooperation and synergy are central to the objectives of the ONSA. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended, spells out the roles of the Armed Forces of Nigeria , the Police and other security and paramilitary agencies in assisting the civil authority to maintain law and order.
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