Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, has called on the Federal Government to give traditional rulers a formal role in Nigeria’s security intelligence system, arguing that better information sharing among security agencies and local authorities is critical to tackling insecurity.
Ladoja said traditional rulers, because of their knowledge of communities and local networks, should be empowered constitutionally to serve as custodians and channels of security intelligence within their domains.
The monarch who stated this when participants of the Advanced Defence Intelligence Officers Course 16 of 2026 Defense Intelligence College, Abuja paid him a courtesy visit at his palace said, “To overcome insecurity occurrences in Nigeria there must be intelligence reports sharing among the accredited security stakeholders in the country as only bullets cannot win the insecurity war”, he said.
In a press release issued and signed by Ayoade Solomon Olugbemiga, the chief press secretary to Olubadan of Ibadanland, quoted the paramount ruler as observing that the lack of defined constitutional roles for traditional rulers prevent them to function optimally.
He called on the Federal Government to empower the traditional rulers constitutionally to perform effectively as the custodians of the intelligence reports within their domains and beyond
