Emma Amaize
WARRI- A Delta-State-based human rights activist, Comrade Omolubi Newuwumi has declared that the Nigerian security system is a disaster and called for a national security summit, involving all the critical stakeholders to address the prevailing challenges.

Omolubi warned that Nigeria risk the tendency of disintegrating in the next five years along sectional tribal militia groups if urgent and substantive measures were not taken to address the negative indices of our security system.

The activist who also advocated the inauguration of a National Commission of Inquiry on Security to probe all illegal services and possession of firearms/ammunition in the country said, “The Nigerian security system is characteristically porous, analogue, inefficient, ineffective, and hence cannot protect more than the lives and property of the President, Heads of State and Governors, thereby exposing the lives and property of millions of Nigerians that it ought to protect to jeopardy”.

“The security failure in the country is a function of policy failure. Any policy that cannot guarantee fairness, equity and justice is bound to fail”, he said, adding that the emergence various militia groups like OPC, Boko Haram, MEND, MASSOB, Bakassi Boys to mention a few, were a reflection of our failed and unreliable Nigerian security system.

Omolubi noted, “Nigerians now have more confidence in the tendency to form tribal/sectional group in order to cater for their immediate security needs because of the failed security system”, pointing out that the killers of former Minister of Justice, the late Chief Bola Ige, former ANPP chieftain, late Chief  Harry Marshal, former PDP leader, late Chief Aminosari Dikibo, Itsekiri leader, late Alfred Rewane, late Alhaji Kudirat Abiola, wife of the late Chief Moshood Abiola and so many others were not found by the Nigerian security.

He said that considering the quantity and quality of the arms/ammunition that were recently discovered in Apapa Port, it was appalling that the Nigerian security discovered them belatedly, adding that there was nothing to applaud about a security system that could not handle the insecurity in Warri crisis that has lasted eight years; Jos crisis for four years; and activities of militants in the Niger-Delta for eight years.

Omolubi said among other things that he strongly believed that poverty and unemployment were part of the problem of insecurity and suggested that a food security system be entrenched through relevant agricultural policies/scheme and mass employment of unemployed youths and urgent reactivation of all our ailing industries.

He also called on the National Assembly to overhaul all existing legislations on security issues in order to meet acceptable conventional standards, while the marine security system should also be upgraded for higher efficiency.

His words, “Nigeria should jettison all forms of analogue security methodology and embrace current and digital methods and relevant security signal should be monitored for appropriate security response”.