Army says Nigeria currently facing complex security challenges

The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division, Maj.-Gen. Aminu Chinade, says the current security challenges facing Nigeria are more complex than the past.
A statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan by the Division’s Deputy Director of Army Public Relations, Lt.-Col. Charles Ekeocha, said the GOC stated this when Team 5 of the National Defence College (NDC), course 31 on National Study tour of Oyo State, led by Air Commodore S.A. Madaki, visited the Division.
Mr Chinade, represented by the Division’s Chief Of Staff, Brig.-Gen. Ismail Oloyede, said there was the need for a robust, dynamic, proactive, national security framework and infrastructure in order to deal with the growing security threats.
He enjoined the team to analyse the challenges to proffer lasting strategies to building socio-economic resilience under the prevailing contemporary security challenges.
Mr Chinade said peace and security are the core aim and objective of the government but the contemporary security challenges have continued to remain the major setback to achieving meaningful socio-economic development in Nigeria.
The GOC said the security challenges also posed threats to the lives and properties of citizens, discourage local businesses and scare away foreign investments.
He told them that as future leaders, to interrogate parameters such as social developments, a holistic society approach, good governance and national cohesion, among others.
Mr Chinade said these are viable pillars of resilience building, noting that if employed, might help with improving the security of lives and well-being of the population.
(NAN)
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