The Department of State Service
DSS), has identified insecurity as a major threat to the 2019 general election.
DSS Director General, Lawal Daura,
raised the alarm in a presentation he made before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee
on the Review of the Current Security Infrastructure in Nigeria.
The committee is headed by Senate
Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan.
Presenting a 38-page report at
the Senate Plenary on Wednesday, Lawan said Daura told the committee that
Nigeria may witness violence “with all the hate speeches and insecurity
prevailing in the polity.”
The lawmaker quoted the DSS boss
as saying “the country is getting more divided like never before due to the
lack of synergy between the traditional institutions and the security agencies,
as well as hate speeches that have dominated the political space.”
Lawan further explained that the
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Yusuf Buratai, on his part, identified the
country’s major security challenges to include Boko Haram threats, militancy,
cultism, secessionist and extremist groups, inter-ethnic, religious and
communal violence.
Buratai was also said to have
expressed concern over inadequate intelligence information sharing mechanisms
among security agencies, inadequate resourcing of security
agencies,administration of criminal justice system, porous borders and poor
border controls, poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities and cultural
and social impediments.
Lawan said the committee observed
that the security agencies require professional skills, equipment and
technology to contain security issues, adding that the agencies lacked critical
equipment and where they existed, they were obsolete.
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