Friday Essay: On Insecurity in Nigeria - By Bolaji Aluko

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Friday Essay: On Insecurity In Nigeria

My People: 

The state of insecurity in the country is completely unacceptable, and requires a complete overhaul of our security architecture and sociological superstructure.

To this end, we must properly deploy:

1.  Intelligence - HumInt, CInt and TechInt (MasInt, SigInt and ImInt)

Unfortunately, it appears that some of our intelligence is compromised by enemy sympathizers, who must be rooted out as a first order of business, without which recurrent defeat on the battle field is assured.

2.  Personnel - Special and Regular

Adequate number for each type of Intelligence, as well as raw boots on the ground, with tour rotations in and out.

3.  Equipment - Specialized (Sateliite, Drone, etc) and Regular -  with agile

bush- and guerrilla-warfare- specific-equipment in place.

4.  Training - adequate and regular for the intelligence and equipment necessary particularly for bush and guerrilla warfare.

5 A Network of Security Networks

Each town, local government and state must have its own security network - each with different levels of arms and ammunition, equipment, personnel and arresting powers, with coordination from one administrative level to the other.

6.  Functional Education and Employment Drive for the Disaffected Citizenry  -  to starve the enemy fighters of replenishment, and for national development. The political, religious, revolutionary, sociological and criminal basis for disaffection must be disaggregated, and dealt with accordingly

Other ideas are welcome.

Bolaji Aluko 

April 30, 2021

[Toyin Falola]

My People:

No. 6 should be the starting point. No amount of gadgets and personnel can police millions of disgruntled citizens. Security is collective. If you put food on the table and I put food on the table, I don’t have to steal your food!

You cannot have a country where millions of its people want to check out.

 

Next level: What history teaches us is that the various militias defending themselves now and fighting for a separate country will later turn inward and create serious havoc. When thugs are created to deal with opponents, they will later turn back to deal with the paymasters.

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[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

fine ideas.

but those who should do all this are perhaps the biggest enablers of the havoc.

as long as Buhari is President, you are not likely to have a peaceful Nigeria until the right wing Fulani national colonisation agenda is completed or until the various ethnicities demand and achieve a renegotiation of the nation where all ethnicities' voices are respected.

but those who control the legislative houses and the armed forces and whose representatives are on an occupy Nigeria mission will not agree to such a renegotiation bcs it will erode their advantage and place them at the mercy of their constituencies since federal largesse will no longer be available, exposing their inadequacies.

''There's a long road to travel, but I dont know which way to go,''- adapting Jimmy Cliff

toyin

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