Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s intelligence
agencies must adopt a culture that is empirical, data-driven and analytical.
The vice-president said this on Saturday in his address at
the graduation ceremony of the executive intelligence management course (EIMC)
14 of the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja.
According to Osinbajo, it has become imperative to reinvent
the institutional culture of intelligence agencies.
“It is the unpredictable events that we must be prepared
for. We must try especially because we have been given the responsibility to
think ahead of a nation of this size and of this complexity. It falls upon our
lives to plan ahead and to be imaginative,” he said.
“It is not enough for
intelligence services to anticipate the threat that we have a clear line of
sight to. Indeed, given the resource constraint that we face, we cannot afford
to wait for the threat to become manifest dangers before we react.”
The vice-president said intelligence agencies must be
proactive rather than reactive, adding that threats must be identified and
addressed well before they evolve into manifest spheres.
“It is a very heavy burden indeed; but the truth is that the
intelligence community, by the very nature of its mandate, is charged with
being several steps ahead of the rest of us,” he said.
“This requires a high
capacity for imagination; in fact, I will go so far as to say that, in many
respects, a failure of intelligence is a failure of imagination.
“Imagination is also a function of what you read; what you
listen to. What are you reading right now? Have you read the latest books on
the dark web or the activities of global criminal networks?
“Are you intensely, constantly acquainting yourself with the
most up-to-date thinking and knowledge in the security sector?
“The knowledge economy and information age is characterised
by constant innovation and it is moving swiftly. It is so fluid that
conventional wisdom is becoming obsolete every single day.
“The security and
intelligence sector is not exempt from all the dynamics that face our world
day. But I must say that perhaps the most critical area is that we must
reinvent the institutional culture of our security and intelligence agencies.
“Our security and intelligence agencies must adopt a culture
that is empirical, data-driven, analytical and defined by forensic rhythm.
“Above all, we must emphasise inter-agency collaboration and
synergy; this is absolutely important. We are as good as the synergy between
all of the agencies.”
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