The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has given what it termed “5-point solution” to tackling the challenges of insecurity in the country.
The Pentecostal body said the menace could be drastically reduced if their suggestions are implemented holistically.
The national publicity secretary of the body, Bishop Emmah Isong, who spoke in Calabar, Tuesday, in a chat with Blueprint said the PFN was sad over incessant cases of killings and wanton destruction across the country.
“The National President of PFN, Rev Dr. Felix Omobude, and the entire body feel very sad about the level of insecurity in the country, and we are therefore asking that the government should do a little bit more to ensure safety of lives and property in a country that had hitherto been the safest in Africa.
“Let me give these five point solutions to all these security problems even though I do not claim to be a security expert but a patriotic citizen, an opinion moulder and father of faith. These five things, if implemented immediate, can stem the tide of security troubles.
“First, the service chiefs should be relieved. You may ask, when? And I will say, immediately, because tomorrow is too long. Number two thing to do is that security vote, both at federal and state level, should be accounted for and made public. You and I know that security vote should be retired and audited.
“Government should improve the salaries of security agents so as to motivate them. Nobody right now will tell you that his father, brother, sister in the police, army, air force is well catered for. How much does the security agent take home? What are the incentives for these people that risk their lives for us?
“What are the motivating factors for that young soldier to go to Sambisa forest? I mean those things that would encourage somebody to stand in the heat of the sun or make him wear a gun and go to the streets to arrest criminals.
“And then, government should improve our already obsolete weapons. Now technology is used to fights crime more human beings. I hoped you know that if you look at the president of America, China and Britain, you don’t see a policeman standing behind them because there is enough intelligence and technology around them to provide security.
“Lastly, government must improve the economy. The economy is the greatest security, no wonder they use the word, ‘food security.’ I studied banking and finance for four years, and there is a course we took in management studies called self actualization, which means that man’s needs is built in a pyramid, starting from biological needs to security.
“Get the stomach infrastructure rolling, get everybody happy, get everybody food on the table, use the food on the table policy and nobody will remember to go to the street or the pipeline to break it, and of course there should be a lot of intelligence gathering,” he stated.
