Former President Olusegun Obadanjo has again decried the pervasive insecurity across the country, saying he does “not know of any Nigerian living or dead today who could boast of being adequately secured.”
Obasanjo recalled that he met on grounds, challenges of insecurity in the country, but said his administration took proactive measures such as carrying out a lot of reforms in the military and signing into law Acts that formally established the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC).
The arrow head of the formation of the Coalition of Nigeria Movement (CNM) that recently fused into African Democratic Congress(ADC) to wrest power from President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) said he would support an amendment of the NSCDC Act, if there is any lacuna, to accommodate private security professionals to help curb sundry security threats in the country.
Obasanjo who spoke at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library(OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Saturday during the ASIS International 2018 leadership retreat with the theme: Building Capacity for Professional Growth, however said such private security professionals should be effectively monitored, supervised and controlled by the NSCDC.
ASIS International 2018 is a global body of professional private security providers while the Lagos chapter of it designated as ASIS 206, organised the retreat.
The ex – President identified corruption, bad economy, nepotism, and poor leadership as some of the drivers of the current security threats in the country.
He also identified four cardinal things that should be in place if the nation expects to witness reduction or cessation of the wave of security threats posed by the insurgents, violent herdsmen, kidnappers among others.
According to him, good governance, good leadership, development and reclaiming of Nigeria’s core values which emphasized honest means of livelihood, would drastically, if not totally, eliminate all of the security threats plaguing the country.
Obasanjo noted that a good leader must have experience both in good and bad sides of life that would help him to strategize on how to handle any threat.
The Chairman of ASIS 206 Lagos Chapter, Oluwaseyi Adetayo said that the NSCDC law if reviewed, would guarantee professionalism of private security practice in the country as well as boost the economy in the areas of employment opportunities and securing assets.
“ASIS International has been providing the platform for networking, education, information on new technology and training for all security professionals all over the world on an as annual basis in the United States,” Adetayo said.
He explained that the theme of the retreat “Building Capacity for Professional Growth” was arrived at in order to attend to one of the major gaps in our industry, which is leadership.
“As many of us have grown to strategic leadership level in our various businesses, it is only important that we back professional and technical knowledge with required leadership skills,” he state.

Baba Iyabo

OBASANJO should keep on lamenting, this is BUHARI and not GOODLUCK Jonathan The dullard who he can manipulate or remove as president . What has beginning must surely have an end. OBASANJO you have come to an end politically

Na today

The problems with Nigeria are as follows;

1). Boko-Haram
2). Unemployment
3). Herdsmen
4). Armed Robbery
5). Recession
6). Insecurity

Check the first CAPITAL letters of numbers 1 - 6 ��� and you will know why it’s happening.
Get your PVC now. This nonsense must stop in 2019.

Worst still is when you have a transmitting transmission igp who does not know his duty of securing lives and properties of the people but quick to accuse politicians of having killer squad only when they are not in his good books.

Under this present govt lives and properties of the people have been highly jeopardized intact there is no security.

No clearly defined Foreign Policy. This Government is truly pervasive, incorrigible, irresponsible and a repeat of Abacha Military Style. Thank God we are in a Constitutional Democracy. A Government that doesn't see productive and income generating processes in Restructuring Nigerian 36 States for Policing, Resourcing and Electioneering Control is autocracy and cracy as well.

all the killing started way back his time as the president of this country,not to talk about thousand he killed in odi,delta state when he was the president of nigeria.why is he now shouting about the killings when bokoharam started when he was in power?i see no point in him shouting now