Abuja: Prof. Kailani Muhammad, National Chairman of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), states that if the Federal Government empowers and supports the CJTF with advanced technology and equipment, it will eliminate banditry within one year.
Muhammad said this when Mr Charles Omini, Special Envoy/Ambassador to West Africa for International Human Rights Protection Service/Forum, presented him a Certificate of Partnership as Chairman of the West African JTF in Abuja on Saturday.
According to him, the government should provide the Civilian JTF with the necessary support to see what they will do; we will crush them.
“If actually we mean business, we know, even in the states where all these things are happening, we know their locations, we know where they are,” he said.
The CJTF chairman also urged President Bola Tinubu to sign an undertaking with all the service chiefs, in collaboration with the CJTF, to eradicate insecurity within one year.
“We are calling on Mr President to give all the security chiefs a timeline of one year. They should sign an undertaking, and within the next year, they will work in collaboration with us to ensure that we eliminate insecurity in Nigeria.
“If they don’t do it, they should resign. They will bring a group to do the job. They should not just leave them like that. They should put them on their toes,” the CJTF chairman said.
He stated that the Federal Government should empower and support the CJTF with the necessary equipment and advanced technology to combat the country’s security challenges.
“Our borders are very porous. We know that there are approximately 2,000 inlets and exits around our country. So, we have already identified those routes.
“If the government can help us, we need to put CCTV as it’s obtained in Mexico now and America.
“So, these should be positioned 100 kilometres away, where you see the influx of these hoodlums, all these bandits coming, through intelligence. We have AI now,” Muhammad said.
Additionally, Omini called for a systematic approach and strategic collaboration among security agencies to combat the insecurity confronting the country.
According to him, security is everyone’s business because we all yearn for a peaceful, safe environment. I have never seen one person winning or combating security.
“I think I will, at this point, call on the security heads at all levels to come up with powerful strategic collaborations and partnerships with the relevant agencies and organisations at all levels.
“Security is not what you handle by running on the street like a mad person. Security, on its own, has a strategic and systemic approach.
“You see, we find ourselves in a global and digital world. At this point, I will appeal to the security agencies to engage more advanced technology to combat these challenges.
“There are a whole lot of technological approaches that if the different security agencies at all levels come up with these approaches technologically, I think we should be able to solve the security challenges confronting Nigeria.
“Another thing we have to do as a country is dialogue. We need to speak with our team. We need to understand that if you destroy one, you are destroying everybody and yourself.
“Those who are carrying arms, who are kidnapping, for how long are they going to do this? We are appealing to them; they are destroying our economy, and they are destroying our government. So these killings must stop, this kidnapping must stop.
“Enough is enough, and it is not something that the government will do alone. So, the security agencies and the Nigerian government have to understand that there have to be strategic collaborations at all levels to make sure we wipe insecurity out of Nigeria.”
