Security challenges are best confronted through collaboration, writes SAMINU DAUDA
Security is rarely won through force alone. Across the world, successful counterterrorism strategies are built on collaboration, intelligence, institutional coordination and community participation. In Nigeria, where insecurity has evolved into a complex web of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and rural criminality, the days of isolated security operations have given way to integrated approaches involving the federal government, state governments, intelligence agencies, traditional institutions and local communities. Perhaps nowhere is this new security architecture more visible than in Kaduna State.
The recent commendation by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, of the partnership between the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and the Kaduna State Government offers an important insight into why Kaduna has recorded measurable improvements in security over the last two years. It also underscores Ribadu’s leadership philosophy: security challenges are best confronted through coordinated action rather than institutional competition.
Represented by the Director of Internal Security at ONSA, Malam Sani Sani, the NSA declared during the graduation ceremony of Kaduna’s pioneer batch of Armed Forest Guards that the collaboration between the federal government and Governor Uba Sani’s administration was producing tangible results in tackling insecurity.
