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By Adam Muhammad, Gusau
It has been observed that Poverty and unemployment are the major factors of the lingering Insecurity in the country.
The Katsina State governor Dikko Umar Radda made the ascension while delivering a the 2nd pre-convocation lecture organized by the federal university Gusau on Friday, titled, Insecurity and educational instability in Nigeria, the way forward.
According to him, every year, millions of young Nigerians graduated in the higher institutions across the country, lamented that the graduants have increasingly find it difficult to universities continue to obtain white-collar employment.
“Many Nigerian graduates start hitting the streets of the country’s largest cities in quest of jobs that aren’t easily available after completing the mandatory one-year national youth service program”. He said.
” When they can’t find work, most of these young people get frustrated and start looking for other ways to make ends meet a situation which makes them turn to illegal crimes like armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom, yahoo yahoo, and computer fraud, among others”.
Governor Dikko further identified Weak/feeble security structure as another factor contributing to the nation’s insecurity.
“It is sad to note the security personnel who confront terrorists and other criminal elements are poorly motivated, lack adequate training and retraining, with no access to advanced weaponry that would allow them to take on criminal organizations such as armed bandits and Boko Haram, among others”
He said non-state actors with a motley crowd, like members of Boko Haram, possess more advanced weaponry than Nigerian security personnel.
“This is ridiculous! utterly absurd may help to explain why these criminals easily assault helpless and innocent Nigerians with reckless abandon”. He added
According to him,the absence of coordination among security agencies fighting insecurity is also seen as a weak point in the nation’s security architecture.
He stated that Inter-agency rivalry is common and has negative impact on how well agencies work to reduce insecurity.
The governor lamented that enormous sums of money made available for the purchase of weapons have been embezzled and mismanaged, with the offenders not receiving enough punishment.
He also mentioned that the porosity of the nation’s borders is, also the country People enter be a contributor to the ongoing insecurity in buta and without detection due to the country’s extremely said to be and exit Nigeria at porous land borders.
“The personnel assigned to guard number of the security personnel the nation’s land borders, including those from the ia Immigration Nigeria Service (NIS) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), are known to be highly ams it individuals, including criminals, to dishonest”.
” These personnel take bribes and permit enter the nation legally from Mall, Chad, the Benin Republic, and Niger and additionally, some people enter the nation under the cover of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Protocol on Transhumance while disguising as cattle herders”.
Governor Dikko Radda suggested that, Nigerian intelligence, policing, and security communities must act professionally in order to gather intelligence on school child abductions using the models of crime-soft-spot, crime-temporary-spot, crime-hot-spot, and crime-chronic-spot.
“They must also act quickly and pro-actively rather than reactively.”
He also called on Security personnel to act with professionalism and ward against political influence from misguided members of the political elite who might wish to evade the intelligence acquired for personal gain, thereby allowing crime to continue in the nation.
“Any society’s effort to prevent crime depends on professionalism, and in order to accomplish the overarching objective of national security, the security agencies must collaborate as a single unit”. He said.
“The solutions to the issue of insecurity include, sound governance, cooperation between security agencies, delivering high-quality instruction, Religious and ethnic tolerance, creation of jobs, Fair distribution of resources throughout the nation’s states and regions and Eradicating poverty”. He said.