The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has blamed the unending insecurity in the country on informants with the security agencies.

NSCDC Commandant-General, Ahmed Audi, gave this revelation during a stakeholders’ summit on the protection of critical national assets and infrastructure in Abuja on Tuesday.

“You will agree with me that the nefarious activities of these criminal elements are being strengthened not only by informants within security formations but equally by those within the society,” Mr Audi told the audience.

He said the upsurge in crime threatens critical national assets and infrastructure, as witnessed in Zamfara, Kaduna, Borno and some other states in the north.

Mr Audi said the federal government should engage “traditional rulers, religious, community, political and youth leaders in the process of finding a solution to this menace.”

Citing the Buhari regime’s claim of spending N60 billion annually on the repairs and maintenance of national assets across the country, he called for re-strategising to protect national assets from the onslaught by criminal elements.

Mr Audi said it behoved stakeholders to identify key national assets and their level of vulnerability while addressing the potential threat to such infrastructure.