The Nigerian army is set to convene a roundtable on the country’s security challenges.
The roundtable will be held on June 24 and 25 with the theme
‘Asymmetrical National Security Challenges, The Army and National Development’.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, on Friday, Okey
Ikechukwu, professor of strategic management and human capital development,
said the roundtable is seeking to come up with implementable action points
(IAPs) on national security challenges.
He said the roundtable seeks to drive a new narrative by
getting Nigerians to see and understand their roles, and the roles of other key
actors, in tackling insecurity.
“These are security
challenges that do not take the simple form of easily-identified, routinely
compartmentalized, properly isolated and unilaterally targetable problems,”
Ikechukwu said.
“They range from embedded targets, refusal to help the army
and other security agencies with local intelligence, the targeting of military
personnel for hostile civilian attention, unproductive community engagements,
deliberate misrepresentation of the activities and achievements of the Nigerian
Army through fake news, deliberate misinformation and disinformation, among
other disruptive activities.
“This RoundTable shall project national interest narratives
in an objective and professional manner, while promoting public understanding
of the roles, and achievements, of the Nigerian Army in the ongoing efforts to
protect and secure the Nigerian State. It will also project National Interest
Communication without Propaganda (NIC–P) and hopefully metamorphose into a
platform for regular updates on the efforts of the Nigerian Army and the
national security apparatus.
“From our pre-event
investigations, surveys and consultations for this RoundTable, it became clear
that more and more Nigerians see and treat national security problems that are
threatening their very lives as purely the business of the military and,
especially, the army.
“We shall use the Roundtable to re-emphasize, as much as
possible, the specific and general roles of the military, particularly the
Nigerian army, in the cocktail of structures, activities and processes that
constitute the national security architecture.
“This should address the emerging challenges and deliberate
misrepresentations of our men in uniform as objectively as possible.”
The Nigerian Institute of Public relations (NIPR), Nigerian
Union of Journalists (NUJ), Voice of Nigeria (VON), News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN), Institute for Strategic Development Communication (ISDEVCOM), Nnamdi
Azikiwe Business School (IBS), and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency
(NDLEA) were named as strategic partners.
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