President, National Union of
Medical Herbal Practitioners (NUMHP), Prince Saka Oyedeji Mabro has described
the approach of Federal Government to national security as lukewarm and
insensitive.
He said the strategy presently
adopted to fight insecurity in Nigeria does not reflect ‘local content’, which
in his words continued to militate against efforts towards curbing criminality
of all forms.
According to him, the
heterogeneous nature of Nigeria requires an all-inclusive security approach
such that brings every stakeholder on board from different strata of the
society.
Mabro, in an interview with dailypost on Sunday, opined that the most virile method of fighting
criminality in an environment like Nigeria is to involve communities concerned
in a manner that sets out direction through ‘home-grown’ tactics.
He insisted that successive
governments at the federal level in Nigeria have failed to give definite
direction to the federating units on the best approach to tackle insecurity.
“As Africans, with rich cultural
heritage in all facets of live, especially in the area of protecting
communities against internal uprising and external aggression, we ought not to
have found ourselves in this sorry state of insecurity.
“No nation can successfully fight
insecurity with complete imported method, without putting into consideration
her local advantage and strength.
“This government has
underutilised the Nigerian local advantage and strength, which had been a
veritable instrument of solving several socioeconomic challenges in different
communities in the pre-colonial Nigeria.
“For instance, our local hunters
possess spiritual capacity to locate hideouts of criminals and even command
them into submission with ease.
“The local science of bulletproof
is still very much intact with our people, in which the government can explore
by genuinely engaging local communities in the fight against insurgency,
kidnappings and other form of criminality.
“For instance, how would you
expect a police officer from the South East of the country to understand and
locate the hideouts of criminals in Osun forest, or Benue.
“Security architecture
encompasses native knowledge and satisfactory understanding of local terrain.
It is high time the Federal Government look inward and change her approach,”
Mabro said.
Speaking on the spate of
insecurity in Osun State, the senior citizen expressed reservation over the
response of the government in the state to the resurgence of criminality.
He wondered what could have gone
wrong within a short period in which the state, formerly adjudged as most
peaceful in the country, suddenly became volatile.
“I think the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, has a lot of questions to answer. The last
government in the state claimed to have spent billions of naira in procuring
certain security hardware, including Helicopter for surveillance.
“Where are those hardware claimed
to have been bought by taxpayers’ money, at the period when the state was in
serious economic predicament. Where is the Helicopter?” he queried.
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