President Tinubu gets best advice on swift steps to take over ravaging insecurity
President Tinubu gets best advice on swift steps to take over ravaging insecurity
The Citizens, a frontline group saddled with opinion moulding for National advancement, development and good governance has in a well attended Press briefing in Abuja, titled “What a serious President Would Do (If Security Truly Mattered)” has advised Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on goal oriented actions to take in order to stamp-out insecurity in Nigeria.
The address read by Comrade Ikem Samuel read as follows:
If our President and Commander in Chief of the Armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really serious not just talking for foreign cameras he would:
1. Fire the current National Security Adviser.
Replace him with a seasoned Intelligence veteran: retired NIA/DIA/DSS boss or deeply experienced operator with decades in the craft.
2. Restructure the Defence Ministry.
Appoint at least one retired senior general with real battlefield and command experience as Defence Minister, not a rejection from the ballot box.
3. End the “repentant terrorist” nonsense.
Institute clear frameworks: investigation, prosecution, sentencing.
Create deradicalisation only for low-level, non-blood-on-hand actors, under strict monitoring not commanders and field butchers.
4. Create a Joint National Security Council that actually works.
Having National Security Adviser, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Air Staff, Inspector-General of Police, State Security Service Director General, National Intelligence Agency Director General, Chief of Defence Intelligence meeting weekly with binding resolutions and transparent presidential backing.
5. Audit and purge the security sector.
Leakages, saboteurs, moles, political appointees planted in sensitive outfits, flush them. Rotate postings, overhaul committees, secure channels, and enforce counterintelligence seriously.
6. Put professionals above party men.
Nobody cares which party keeps power if citizens are being buried in mass graves weekly.
As far as we the citizens are concerned, Buhari broke It. Tinubu is refusing To Fix It.
Former President Mohammadu Buhari opened the door to “repentant terrorists” and destroyed morale. Allowed infiltration, sabotage, and political Jihadists to play inside the security architecture.
President Tinubu saw the ruins, walked in, rearranged the chairs and Called it “Renewed Hope.”
Hope for who?
Certainly not for the soldiers who now die knowing their killers might end up in a government camp eating three square meals.
You can not build a secure nation with:
wrong people at the top, wrong policies on the ground, wrong incentives for killers.
Defence ministers should be retired generals or deeply grounded defence professionals.
The NSA should be a frontline intelligence mind, not a political redeployment slot.
Anything less is not a government.
It is a risk factor.
And right now, Nigeria’s biggest security problem is not only the terrorists in the bush it is the politicians in suits, agbada and babanriga who have turned national security into a reward system for loyalty, instead of a sacred duty to the dead and the living.
We pray that our President, Bola Tinubu takes a swift action within hours as we will address international community and the world in two weeks time if nothing is done in the affirmative.
