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Speaking on the gains of Thursday’s Federal Government expanded security meeting in Abuja, the Executive Director of an NGO, Advocacy for Peace in Africa, Mr Owolabi Ajibola, on Friday in Osogbo canvassed for the establishment of civilian secret service as an alternative intelligence gathering mechanism.
"I believe the panacea to the nagging security challenge in Nigeria now is to engage the locals more seriously in the area of intelligence gathering."
"The government has the opportunity to engage many of our unemployed youths in their communities, train them properly and deploy them to gather sensitive security information in their localities.
"They will operate in the secret service in the midst of their people disguising as businessmen and women, artisans and others while information can easily be gathered through the right source.
"If the government can consider this and do it, Nigerians will be surprised at how the level of crime all over the country will drastically reduce to the barest minimum.
"It is high time the Federal Government stopped the allocation of security vote to state governors who are not using it judiciously and use it to engage our youths directly as government informants.
``No nation wins the war against high profile crime and terror in the absence of active participation at the grassroots.
"It is the fundamental step to take if we are serious about putting an end to this mess,’’ he said.
According to him, those to be recruited must have the minimum qualification of Ordinary National Diploma with no crime record.
"I believe the panacea to the nagging security challenge in Nigeria now is to engage the locals more seriously in the area of intelligence gathering."
"The government has the opportunity to engage many of our unemployed youths in their communities, train them properly and deploy them to gather sensitive security information in their localities.
"They will operate in the secret service in the midst of their people disguising as businessmen and women, artisans and others while information can easily be gathered through the right source.
"If the government can consider this and do it, Nigerians will be surprised at how the level of crime all over the country will drastically reduce to the barest minimum.
"It is high time the Federal Government stopped the allocation of security vote to state governors who are not using it judiciously and use it to engage our youths directly as government informants.
``No nation wins the war against high profile crime and terror in the absence of active participation at the grassroots.
"It is the fundamental step to take if we are serious about putting an end to this mess,’’ he said.
According to him, those to be recruited must have the minimum qualification of Ordinary National Diploma with no crime record.
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