Community Defence Law Foundation, a grass-root based civil society organization that works to introduce and achieve education among youth groups, is alarmed at the bomb blast that rocked the Police Force Headquarters, in Abuja, on Thursday, 17 June, and wishes to call on all the security operatives to see the development as critically demanding attention. On Independence Day celebration last year, a bomb blast was recorded close to the Eagle Square, Abuja venue of celebration.
Community Defence Law Foundation, a grass-root based civil society organization that works to introduce and achieve education among youth groups, is alarmed at the bomb blast that rocked the Police Force Headquarters, in Abuja, on Thursday, 17 June, and wishes to call on all the security operatives to see the development as critically demanding attention. On Independence Day celebration last year, a bomb blast was recorded close to the Eagle Square, Abuja venue of celebration.
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It is now imperative and exigent for the security agents to work together to arrest the situation, if the bomb blasts continues unchecked then Nigeria is doomed. If a militant organization could penetrate the Police Headquarters to release a bomb then nowhere is indeed save in Nigeria.
Security is not all about recruiting several thousands of men and women, having check points all over the streets of the country, harassing innocent citizens, blowing sirens and the rest. Security involves emphasis on characters to be recruited, sound training, good package, strategic planning, intelligence gathering, installing security gadgets at strategic places and buildings in and around the cities.
We now live in a high-tech world. Therefore, we must step up our security system to meet with the times. Our security forces are still operating the ancient and rural method of securing the country and its peoples. The Boko Haram sect has for long indicated their desire and willingness to cause mayhem in Nigeria and they are doing just that. We, then expect the SSS and Police to have infiltrated into this group by now in order to clamp down on them. Apparently, our security people do not know how this sect functions.
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Before the Police Headquarters bomb, many officers and men of the police have been killed, police stations sacked by this group, especially in Borno state. Yet, our security agencies slumber.
CDLF call on the President to immediately direct all security commands to intensify their intelligence departments, as this would stop the criminals from causing harm. Again, the security groups must purchase equipments, gadgets, which would be installed in strategic places to enhance detection of dangerous weapons.
The security agencies must justify the huge budgets usually allocated to it every year. They must prove to the nation that money spent on their foreign and local trainings are justifiable.
The best security anywhere in the world is that which prevents harmful occurrences, our security operatives must then be far ahead of these criminals in other to check them. We cannot continue to count loses after they have left us with sorrows, tears and blood, if the police had a perfect intelligence network there is certainly no way an intruder, total strangers, would have joined the convoy of a DIG to beat the security at the entrance gate.
Something urgent must be done if we must avert this from future occurrences; there is no reason why all the state governors for instance, need not have installed CCTV cameras to help the SSS and Police in their various states from tracking down the militants, kidnappers, robbers? One equally wonders, as important as Abuja, there are no CCTV devices, what then is security vote used for?
We, hope the President will not allow this case to be swept under the carpet.
Uzodinma Nwaogbe
Community Defence Law Foundation
16, Thames Street, Off Alvan Ikoku,
Ministers Hill, Maitama
Abuja. 0803. 841. 9391
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