Security Experts in the country are calling on state Governors to give adequate support and assistance to security agencies in their efforts to tackle the security challenges in the country.
They made the call during a colloquium themed ’emerging Trends and insecurity in our communities, challenges and Solutions’ in Offa, the Kwara state capital.
Speakers at the event also suggested quality leadership, rule of law improved community policing as some of the key solutions to the prevalent insecurity in the country.
They say insecurity caused by armed attacks on the country by non-state actors and armed has astronomically increased value of attacks and mastered map of people around the nation with seemingly feeling responses from the Nigerian sector.
The team of panelists at the colloquium included a former director of National Military Strategy at the National Defence College, Abuja, Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun (Rtd), Assistant Inspector General of Police, Remi Opadokun (Rtd), Oyo state commandant of Amotekun, Colonel Olayinka Olayanju (Rtd) and the executive chairman of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS), Mrs. Shade Omoniyi, as well as other traditional security operatives.
The security experts, who identified drivers of insecurity to include unemployment and poverty, said that extreme poverty could lead to crime. Others, they said are drug abuse, proliferation of small arms, get-rich-quick syndrome, rising population figure, as well as actions and inactions of members of each community.
They also suggested quality leadership, rule of law, development of the nation’s security architecture, improved community policing, restructuring the Nigeria state, technical career education, resuscitation of moribund industries and value/moral education as some of the key solutions to the prevalent insecurity in the country.
