By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan
Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), at the weekend, said the federal government was determined to reposition the Nigeria Police Force to be able to properly tackle the insecurity challenges in the country.
Dambazau, who stated this in Ibadan while delivering the inaugural lecture of the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies of University of Ibadan, declared that the repositioning of the Nigeria Police was part of the agenda of the present administration in the country towards sustaining its crusade against insecurity in Nigeria.
The Minister pointed out that the time had come for all stakeholders in the country to ensure that insecurity in Nigeria “is reduced to the barest minimum for rapid socio-economic and political development of the country.”
He noted that “Nigeria is presently contending with various forms of insecurity which the most recent is the issue of Boko-Haram in the North-east, the Fulani herdsmen and pastoral farmers’ crises in some parts of the country.”
Emphasising further that the issues of trans-border crime involving arms and ammunition shipment and drug trafficking had been on the rise in the country for some time, the Minister said “insecurity is not only peculiar to Nigeria.”
The Minister while urging that all hands must be on the deck to curtail the insecurity in the country, stressed that there would be no going back in the agenda of the present administration in Nigeria to ensure sustenance of its crusade against insecurity.
Also speaking, at the lecture, the Chairman of Slash FM, Ibadan, Chief Adebayo Akande, tasked Nigerians to ensure that no effort was spared towards maintaining and sustaining peace in and across the country, saying “Nigeria presently is battling with a myriad of security threats ranging from Boko Haram crisis, killer herdsmen, Niger delta militants to the reincarnation of the Niger Delta Avengers.”
Other speakers at the lecture also supported the Minister in the call for all hands to be on the deck to ensure adequate security.
