The Federal Government has outlined a multi-pronged strategy aimed at tackling insurgency, banditry and kidnapping across the country, with plans to recruit more security personnel, deploy advanced technology and strengthen international partnerships.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Daniel Bwala, disclosed this during a panel discussion on Friday.
Bwala said the Tinubu administration had intensified efforts to address Nigeria’s security challenges by increasing the number of personnel across the country’s security agencies, stressing that the current workforce was inadequate for Nigeria’s population and geographical size.
“We are investing in training and retraining. First of all, we’re investing in recruiting more security personnel because the one we have, they are not sufficient to match with the population and the land mass,” he said.
According to him, part of the new recruits will be deployed as forest guards to flush out terrorists and criminal gangs operating from forests,
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