In what seems to be a clarion call, a call to patriotism and duty. A former Inspector General of Police and Chairman Police Service Commission Dr Solomon Arase CFR has called for renewed vigor and inclusiveness in the fight against organized crimes and other forms of criminality so as to achieve the required results.
In a statement released by Ikechukwu Ani, the Head of Press, Media and Publicity of the Police Service Commission he quoted Dr. Arase has saying that as a people we must rise and stand firm against those who threaten “the sovereign integrity of the Nigerian State” according to him no security Agency can deliver on its mandate without the support of the people.
Dr. Arase who was represented by Bar. Brighten Saagwe, Director, Planning, Research and Statistics of the Commission declared that “our will, therefore must be strong because our faith lies in the indivisibility of Nigeria” He spoke at the International Symposium on countering
organized crimes in Africa held in Abuja.
Dr. Arase stated further that, ” it has become not only a statutory mandate but a moral imperative to re-enact our old fighting force, re-strategise and redesign our tactics and promptly arrest and contain the growing insecurity challenge in our country”.
He said that on no account should “we shy away from whatever becomes necessary within the ambit of the law to provide the needed security for the citizens. He noted that terrorism or crime has no conscience and spares no one, whether rich, poor, educated or uneducated and therefore ” no matter what it takes, let us stand together and win this war against organized crime and terrorism “.
The PSC Chairman appealed that the supreme task for our generation ” is to give hope to the hopeless, strength to the weak and protection to the defenceless”.
He said organized crimes, no doubt, have negative effects on economic development of nation’s and the need to fight same need not to be over-emphasized “.
“Mankind must put an end to organised crime or organized crime will put an end to mankind” and on the ” keyboard of life, let us as a nation always keep a finger on the escape key to survive” he said.
He advised that in this war against organized crime, there should be more synergy between security agencies as well as prompt criminal intelligence-sharing. He also suggested that Government should adopt a mix of both kinetic and non-kinetic approach for effective and result oriented security management.
Dr. Arase promised that the Police Service Commission under his watch shall collaborate with other agencies of Government to fight organized crime in Nigeria.
The symposium with theme: Drug Crimes, Terrorism, Arms Trafficking, Marine Crimes, Environmental crime and auto theft was put together by the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch and other partners.
The document signed by Ikechukwu Ani was quoted to have said the aforementioned.
