No security agency can deliver without support of citizens–Arase

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Dr Solomon Arase, says that no security agency can deliver on its mandate without the support of the people.

Arase who stated this at the International Symposium on countering organized crimes in Africa held in Abuja, called for renewed vigour and inclusiveness in the fight against criminals to achieve the required results.

He enjoined all to rise and stand firm against those who threaten “the sovereign integrity of the Nigerian State”, adding that no security agency can deliver on its mandate without the support of the people.

Represented by Barr. Brighten Saagwe, Director, Planning, Research and Statistics of the Commission, Arase said, “Our will, therefore, must be strong because our faith lies in the indivisibility of Nigeria.”

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He said for the security agencies, “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.

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”.

“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 and prompt criminal intelligence-sharing.

He also suggested that the government should adopt a mix of both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches for effective and result-oriented security management.

Arase promised that the Police Service Commission, under his watch, would collaborate with other agencies to fight organized crime in Nigeria.