By Jamiu Ganiyu
A security expert and retired military officer, Group Captain Segun Fanu rtd, has advised the federal government of Nigeria to dialogue with the dreadful Islamic group, Shiite in order to avert the scenario that played out during the early days of Boko Haram insurgency.
The retired military officer gave the advice yesterday during the 2019 National Security Conference and Public Lecture, organized by the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), of the Nigeria Police Force, Osun State command at Aurora Conference and Event Centre, ring-road, Osogbo, the State capital.
He said from his observation of the Shiite and their activities, Shiite are not just a group of people that don’t know what they were doing but rather he saw a group of well-trained ex or serving military who are determined.
Speaking specifically on the need for dialogue, Captain Fanu, in his words said, “in wars, troops can withdraw from a particular theatre of war to go and reorganize. He advised the federal government to shift back a little bit and accommodate some of their demands.
Capt Segun Fanu, identified a lack of institutional capacity, loss of communal values, weak security system, unemployment, and poverty among others as reasons for kidnapping and banditry in the country.
Speaking on the theme, “Kidnapping and Banditry: Understanding the Twin Menace”, Fanu said winning the war against kidnapping and banditry require a deep understanding of the history of insecurity vis-a-vis the forms of crime, causes, threats, strategies for containment and eradication.
He urged security agencies to adopt new thinking that would galvanize optimum results, he said they must begin to appraise the successes and failures so far and weaving a workable strategy around them in a bid to stem the tide and rid the nation off the menace.
On his part, the Chairman, Osun State Chapter of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Comrade Shittu Amitolu said the programme was organized to reawaken the people’s consciousness to security in the Country.
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