The National Security Adviser; General Owoye Andrew Azazi at a one day security summit organized by J.K. Randle Professional Services in collaboration with the office of the national security adviser.
The security submit held at the Eko Hotel and Suites at Victoria Island in Lagos has the theme “ Security and Risk Management on land , in the Air and at Sea.”
The submit is aimed at addressing the concerns and challenges regarding security of lives and property and investment. Mr. Azazi said some cities can employ private security companies to collaborate effectively with the police in checking crime waves in the cities
“Private security should be organized in big cities like we have in Durban South Africa, we can encourage that while we work on our police to effectively collaborate with the police and also help in checking crimes”
Mr. Azazi also emphasized the need for government to address the fundamentals of governance stating that poverty, unemployment and corruption are indices that impede security of lives and property in the country.
“Security is the relative absent of fear and national security is the defense of the nation and for us to have effective security to me, is for us to begin to look at the quality of lives in an environment which to me is now more important than the invasion from other countries. Whatever it takes to make the human lives better and progressive is security. National security involves planning and the vision 2010 is a blue print that if adopted would help us because it contains the ingredients of progress and should be implemented.”
Mr. Azazi calls for a collective efforts toward security for the nation emphasizing that security challenges have ethical, traditional, religious colourations and they are taking dangerous trends like the Boko Haram sect and the new trend in bombing.
“For security to be addressed issues like poverty, corruption, unemployment and other elements of governance should be looked at.”he added
On the issue of the bombings in jos and at the Mogadishu barracks in Abuja, Mr. Azazi said the police is on the trail of the perpetrators. He also added that his office will take up the issue of national database creation seriously.
“concerning the October 1st bombing in Abuja, we have arrested some suspects and they are being prosecuted we are on the trail of those behind the jos and the Mogadishu barrack bombings; there is need for a national database , and our sim card registration, the voters’ registration and other registrations in the country can be integrated into a national database ; from my office we will begin to do something about it “ Mr. Azazi said
The event which was well attended by participants from both the public and private sectors has speakers like Joseph Olusegun Ajanalekoko, the president of the Association of professional bodies, chief Mrs. Onikepo Oshodi president of the cosmopolitan club, Fola Arthur Worrey the Managing Director of the Lagos state security Trust Fund among others.
Mr. Worrey stated that the police should be properly funded like INEC and other security agencies are subsumed under the police. He also said political responsibility for security of lives and property lies with the president and incentives and blame for security failure should be borne by the president.
“we must identify who the constitution says is responsible for the security of lives and property and we must use the ballot boxes to check them; there is need for effective policing all the time and we must move away from reactional policing to everyday effective everyday policing of life and property.
Since most states now bear the burden of security in their states, more allocation for the police in the Federal government budget and the constitution should be amended so that the state and local government have more money to invest in security so to further localize the process”Mr. Worrey said.
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