New National Security Strategy Underway, Says Azazi

Guardian

6 February 2011

New National Security Strategy Underway, Says Azazi  

NATIONAL Security Adviser, Gen Owoye Azazi, yesterday said Nigeria is redesigning the national security strategy to focus on the guarantee of public safety and national stability. According to him, Nigerians must imbibe the reality that security is the business of everybody, not just officials of government.  Gen Azazi, who spoke at a seminar at the National Defence College Abuja under the theme: The Concept of National Security Strategy and the Changing Security Environment, also said that the imposition of state of emergency in the violence-prone States of Borno, Bauchi and Plateau States would not guarantee the needed security, rather, “it will further aggravate the state of insecurity by removing the Governor.”

Gen Azazi, who said that insecurity threats of the future would crystallise into armed violence, insurgency, irregular and guerrilla warfare, however, said these threats are not new but now, “everybody is everywhere. We have the CNN effect. Things happening in one locality are communicated immediately.”