COLUMN: Insecure Security

Lately, flipping through the pages of newspapers and logging in to social media can be a harrowing experience. Screaming headlines such as “Bandits attack and ransack community”, “Students kidnapped by unknown gunmen”, “Scores killed, villages burnt” has sadly become a regular feature. It is not unsurprising that countries like Canada, Australia, the US and UK have issued travel warning on the country’s state of insecurity.

April also witnessed the abduction of students of the Greenfield University in Kaduna, and the gruesome murder of five of the abducted students by their captors so far. Seeing pictures on social media of one of the abducted student’s funeral service amid tears and sorrow cast a shadow over the nation’ insecurity challenge and underscores the urgent need for the revitalization of the nation’s security architecture.

However, what seems to be conspicuously absent in the region is perhaps a regional security outfit like what is being done by their counterparts in the Southeast with “Ebubeagu” and “Amotekun” in the Southwest meant to supplement the efforts of security personnel in battling the rising insecurity in the region. Why the North hasn’t replicated such is confusing. Early last year though “Shege-Ka-Fasa”, a security outfit was launched by a coalition of northern groups.

For instance, the Northeast is plagued by insurgency, revived Biafran secessionist activities have escalated in recent years in the Southeast, leading to violent clashes between the country’s security forces and militia groups, clashes between farmers and herders over land have spurred the formation of ethnic militias, vigilante raids, and extrajudicial killings in the Northwest/Middle Belt.

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