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By Ebube Egbufor
The Amanyanabo of Nembe Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, King Edmund Daukoru, has called on Nigerians to see security of lives and properties as a shared responsibility instead of blaming any single institution for not tackling the insecurity in the country.
Speaking recently to newsmen at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa King Daukoru said Nigerians are part of the problem because “some of us with vital information on how to fish out the criminals do not give them out.”
According to the monarch, “the security infrastructure that is supposed to redouble efforts is somehow not up to expectation and that includes ordinary people as well because security cuts across every possible way.”
He gave instances of how some community people leaked security information to hoodlums when the community vigilante wanted to take action against them, noting that insecurity could only be fought on the basis of mutual confidentiality.
To him decision makers can take decision but if those at the level of implementing it do not do their work, it gets murky.
“People sacrifice immediate interest to the larger interest and when a matter reaches this level it is very difficult to fight,” the monarch said, adding that if certain decisions have been implemented at the initial stage the security situation in the country would not have deteriorated.
He further pointed out that when former president Yar’Adua took guns from the Niger Delta militants and set up the Amnesty system, some of the policies that were supposed to follow up from that exercise were not faithfully implemented, stressing, “so now, the thing is just a complete mess and everybody has to take the blame. It’s just too much to blame it on one single institution.”
On the issue of using local vigilante to fight crime, the monarch said there is an ongoing effort to recruit and train young men to work with the police and other security agencies.
He noted that traditional fathers, as the closest to the grassroots, are also involved and have been asked to nominate local boys who can be trusted to go on specialized training for this purpose.
The monarch added that it is not for any manner of boys who want to make money but a deliberate exercise where people have to be nominated by traditional fathers and government apparatus to undergo special training as local vigilante.
He therefore urged Nigerians to be patient and that once the efforts begin, if they could be sustained
the way it is intended and faithfully implemented, there would definitely be results, though gradually, as it is not an overnight thing.
