planetx13:
In saner climes, this man will easily become president..... he really understands the problems of this country and has the solutions ready... ...

His goals are valid, smart, sensible, measurable and highly achievable, but what do i know,,, afterall, this is Nigeria ....

All i can say is vote wisely

Ciao

Nigerians are irretrievably dumb... Nothing can change this.. We will never vote in the right person...

Why not just upgrade the mobile police force to the National Guard instead of building a new security outfit from the scratch.

Hasheem I said pls make we hear word you no dey listen or what? Your ear no dey work or wetin?

Those National Guard, are they going to be a spirit? If they are not, why not think of how to strengthen the security architecture that are almost lame?

AhlexOfficial:
Hmmm.... Kuku hire night watchmen na

Are you aware the usa also has a national guard in place. They are trained for internal crisis only.

genxris:
He didn’t even talk of strengthening the handicapped police or empowering the civil defense, he’s talking of adding more nuisance to the security apparatus.
Please I don’t want to hear all this nonsense again this year

Or civil defence can be retrained and turned into national guard. That will give them purpose cos right now i don't no d use of those ones

Hotfreeze:
This Olawepo Hashim is bereft of ideas.

He wants to establish a National Guard when the Police is understaffed and underfunded. Even at that, most of the policemen are personal security to VIPs and there are just few left for citizens.

Mrrights, tell Hashim that the police has Marine Police, Inland waterways Police, Border patrol police, Air wing (Air police) and Mounted troop (horseback). Instead of training, buying equipment and empowering them, he wants to establish an imaginary outfit.

He is clearly ignorant of the workings of our security forces and doesn't deserve to lead Nigeria.

I agree that our current Armed Services are under-trained, undermanned,overstretched and under-equipped.

But the man is right.

Most serious countries, even those smaller than our dear Nigeria have a national guard or gendarmerie as the French speakers call it.

Even in the 1980s, IBB saw it fit to create a National Guard for Nigeria.

However, fear of coup and power dilution killed the idea.

In replacement, they embarked on expanding the then elite MOPOL to serve the purpose. Forgetting that effort and money had already gone down.

We still suffer for it today, as the training bases built in anticipation of the nascent National Guard are sited in Sambisa and surrounding areas.

Today, those MOPOL now typically deployed as nothing but glorified bodyguards. The training bases nko, I hear you ask?

They are serving as BHT bases (correct as at 2016 IIRC).

planetx13:
In saner climes, this man will easily become president..... he really understands the problems of this country and has the solutions ready... ...

His goals are valid, smart, sensible, measurable and highly achievable, but what do i know,,, afterall, this is Nigeria ....

All i can say is vote wisely

Ciao

There is nothing sensible about his proposition.
Absolute nonsense

DaV8King:


I agree that our current Armed Services are under-trained, undermanned,overstretched and under-equipped.

But the man is right.

Most serious countries, even those smaller than our dear Nigeria have a national guard or gendarmerie as the French speakers call it.

Even in the 1980s, IBB saw it fit to create a National Guard for Nigeria.

However, fear of coup and power dilution killed the idea.

In replacement, they embarked on expanding the then elite MOPOL to serve the purpose. Forgetting that effort and money had already gone down.

We still suffer for it today, as the training bases built in anticipation of the nascent National Guard are sited in Sambisa and surrounding areas.

Today, those MOPOL now typically deployed as nothing but glorified bodyguards. The training bases nko, I hear you ask?

They are serving as BHT bases (correct as at 2016 IIRC).

Alws comparing Nigeria to other countries is wrong

Nigeria is unique and has its peculiar problem, and we cannot just blindly chose to adopt the method of others

NOETHNICITY:
Alws comparing Nigeria to other countries is wrong

Nigeria is unique and has its peculiar problem, and we cannot just blindly chose to adopt the method of others

"Even in the 1980s, IBB saw it fit to create a National Guard for Nigeria.

However, fear of coup and power dilution killed the idea."

If the military as embodied by IBB, Sani Abacha etc thought it a good idea over 35 years ago, then me I see no issues there.

Remember too that this is a more peace-less Nigeria than it was back then.

Except you are going to import the people that will be the National Guards, this imported effort might fail. Truth is, Nigerians are the problems of Nigeria.

mrrights:
Insecurity: I will Establish National Guard, Says Olawepo-Hashim

Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the presidential candidate of People’s Trust (PT) in 2019 election, [b]has announced his plan to establish National Guard to contain internal security threats if elected President of Nigeria.

[/b]Speaking in an interview at the weekend, Mr. Olawepo Hashim chided the APC government for failing to contain internal security breaches, promising that he would overhaul the security architecture to make Nigeria a safer place for all.

Olawepo-Hashim said, “Security is not just a question of spending bigger budgets; it is about having the right structures and strategies. As it is, the Armed Forces of the Federation is over-stressed and distracted by deployments for internal security operations.

“I think it is time for Nigeria to have a National Guard. I’m going to put up a National Guard as a President of Nigeria. My reasons and justifications are self-evident. Our internal security questions have graduated to the level of insurrection. We are now having well-trained militias, perhaps having more training than the police but probably, you may not need full scale military action to handle them.

“That is what a National Guard job is, an intermediate force between the regular armed forces and the police. Nigeria needs a well-trained intermediate force that is going to act between the Army and the police, which is the National Guard.

“We don’t need to expose the regular army trained mainly in the art of war. The military is meant to focus on defending the territorial integrity of the nation. The National Guard is for deployment to prevent or quell internal conflict and eruptions beyond the capacity of the police service. The idea of deploying military for internal security assignment is an abnormality which I will correct as a President,” he pledged.

Lamenting the growing lawlessness in the country, Olawepo -Hashim said what encouraged the ongoing rascality and bloodletting was that “people are not promptly punished when they murder other people.”

He said, “Government issued long statements, giving excuses, telling us why some people were killed. That’s not what we should be hearing from law enforcement officers. When people commit crimes, they need to be punished promptly. And as you make example of a few people, it acts as deterrent to others,” he emphasised.

Justifying his plans to create National Guard as part of general overhauling of national security apparatus, the PT candidate observed that the life of ordinary Nigerians has become so cheap even as murderers and arsonists go mostly unpunished.

He pledged, “From day one, we would act decisively so that people would know there is a new Sheriff in town.
“Under us, every Nigerian would be assured that his life really counts, and that there are no special Nigerians who have licence to kill other Nigerians. Now, that’s the first thing. We need to change the psychological environment and people know that you have to be careful.”

https://www.independent.ng/insecurity-i-will-establish-national-guard-says-olawepo-hashim/amp/

This dude is a practical joke. Nigeria has useless armed forces and paramilitary outfits yet the ninny wants to add another useless layer to it.

My suggestion is that please the military should lay an ambush on this politicians and take over power, that is the only way to save Nigeria or a serious revolution must take place. Hard way the only way, believe it or live it that is the only way to save this country

Yeah right!
Here we go again trying to take the structure and not the ideology. The American National Guard are part time soldiers, who get deployed too and expect to report for drills monthly - these keeps them sharp and ready should their unit be up for deployment. They undergo military nasic training just like combat officers such that whether internal or external, the mission, to destroy every enemy is never in doubt. The ideology is National loyalty, the protection and upholding of American sovereignty and AMERICAN VALUES.

What is the Nigerian value or values. What, outside soccer or sports unifies us and stirs us to fight and even die for Nigeria? Materialism, ethnocentricsm, racism, religious bigotry, name it.

What Nigeria needs is a reorientation of values. Dignity in labour, selfless service to self, community and country; an overhaul of the current materialistic culture to one where a man's life is not the sum of material possessions but the content of his character. A massive media campaign for every Nigerian on moral instruction and proper civil behaviour.

This can be done via the NYSC not as it is set up now but lowering the eligibility. Currently you get to serve only after completing a degree or HND. Now, back in the day, when the NYSC was established, the population of graduates finishing college were not overwhelming neither were strikes crippling as they are today. Graduates were younger, values were more noble, benefits of the service were both tangible and intangible. Times have changed, yet the structure is obsolete. Today, by the time a graduate gets to serve, they are lucky to be in their early 20s, majority are in their mid 20s to late 20s and are already set in their ways.

While open to review, I suggest, bearing in mind youth starts from 12 say 13. When a young person completes the Junior, senior WAEC in June, rather than idle away till their results come out, let there be an option to complete some if not all aspects of the Youth Service orientation. These youth are still malleable at that point and, a national orientation cum consciousness can be imbibed and precious time saved compared to the waste of time and life we have nowadays.

Also media wise, communication is critical. No more overview but details, the nitty gritty: we are going to do A. Step 1: between so and so time frame, we will do a, b, c, d. Your goal and objective should not be shrouded in mystery where people do not have a clear cut description of what you re doing and how you gon do it