A two-day solutions seeking roundtable to the current spate of insecurity in the country is set to hold next week.
Themed RoundTable on “Asymmetrical National Security Challenges, the Army and National development”, is scheduled for Monday, June 24th, and Tuesday, 25th June, 2024, by the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC) and Development Specs Academy (DSA).
Laying bare the purpose of the roundtable at a pre-event press conference in Abuja, the Executive Director, Development Specs Academy, Prof. Prof Okey Ikechukwu, mni, explained that it is meant to generate, articulate and present for implementation problems solving solutions to the multiple security challenges confronting Nigeria nationwide.
He said that the myriads of security challenges facing the nation are not unknown to anyone, stressing that it was high time to seek for enduring result oriented solutions rather than dwelling on what happened and how it is happening.
According to him, the roundtable is “designed as a Third-Party initiative, to distill and present Implementable Action Points (IAPs) on pressing asymmetrical national security challenges. These are security challenges that do not take the simple form of easily-identified, routinely compartmentalized, properly isolated and unilaterally targetable problems.
“They range from embedded targets, refusal to help the army and other security agencies with local intelligence, the targeting of military personnel for hostile civilian attention, unproductive community engagements, deliberate misrepresentation of the activities and achievements of the Nigerian Army through fake news, deliberate misinformation and disinformation, among other disruptive activities.
“This RoundTable shall project national interest narratives in an objective and professional manner, while promoting public understanding of the roles, and achievements, of the Nigerian Army in the ongoing efforts to protect and secure the Nigerian State.
“It will also project National Interest Communication without Propaganda (NIC–P) and hopefully metamorphose into a platform for regular updates on the efforts of the Nigerian Army and the national security apparatus.”
On his part, the Director General, Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Maj. Gen. G. A. Wahad (Rtd), stressed that the solutions to the security challenges confronting the country can only be proffered and implemented by Nigerians better than anyone else.
He urged the judiciary to be firm rather than dwelling on technicalities in treating cases involving terrorists and bandits in order to achieve the objectives of the security agencies in the fight against insecurity.
Gen. Wahad further advocated that authorities at the local government areas level, should brace up to their responsibilities of assisting the security agencies to do their jobs in securing the country.
Also, the National President of the Nigeria Institute of Public Relations, Dr. Ike Neliaku, advocated for targeted peaceful communication system involving critical stakeholders in peace building to be entrusted in the hands of experts in mediation and reconciliation.
Among other things, the roundtable will “Establish informed linkages between the fallouts of misguided political decisions, overlooked multiplier effects of the operating environment and emerging national security challenges in different parts of the country;
“This should address the emerging challenges and deliberate misrepresentations of our men in uniform as objectively as possible.
“Present our general and specific security challenges, as well as the efforts and achievements of the military, particularly the Nigerian army, in dealing with them.”
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