Insecurity: NSCDC Insists On Constant Review Of Strategies As Panacea To Overcome

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has emphasised the importance of constant strategy review by members of the nation’s security architecture as a panacea to combat all types of insecurity plaguing Nigeria.

According to the Corps, the current reality necessitates an ongoing rethinking of security policies so that everyone joins, pulls resources and skills together, and fights our common enemy.

The Corps stated its position at a seminar on Inter-Agency association for some chosen states including as Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Edo, Akwa Ibom, and Cross Rivers, which was conducted by NSCDC in association with the Nigeria House of Representatives and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS).

According to a statement issued on Monday by the NSCDC’s National Public Relations Officer, Babawale Afolabi, the scheme falls within such a plan because it aims to ensure seamless collaboration/synergy among Nigeria’s security players.

According to him, the Corps believes that the security of people and property is important to achieving genuine socioeconomic growth, particularly in Nigeria.

It maintained that no security agency in Nigeria can single-handedly ensure the security of lives and properties as security challenges of our contemporary time are hydra-headed. This fact has been proven over and over even beyond Nigeria.

According to the agency, the other objective of the programme is to ensure all stakeholders across the board are carried along on this mission.

It hinted that similar seminars were organised in three other geopolitical zones: North-East, North-West, and South-South before the one which drew participants from the states above.

The Corps expresses gratitude to Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) for their partnership and belief in Nigeria by ensuring the implementation of the programme and other activities for the benefit of Nigeria and Nigerians.

It also applauded the contribution of Ms Marija Peran, the Resident Representative in Nigeria for her important role in the continuous nurturing of the collaboration between the NSCDC and KAS.

NSCDC stressed that a constant review of strategies is an important panacea to overcome insecurity, noting the need for a constant review of strategies by members of the nation’s security architecture as a panacea to confront all forms of insecurity bedeviling Nigeria.

Participants who were mostly senior officers were encouraged to learn new things noting that security management is ever-dynamic, it has made learning a continuous process.