As part of plans to address the Boko Haram problem, a meeting has been scheduled for all former National Security Advisers (NSAs), today in Abuja.
The meeting is being convened to tackle the activities of militia groups operating in Nigeria and have threatened the security of the country.
A security source told Daily Champion that the Federal Government has decided on the parley as part of plans to address the issues of militancy across the country.
It said the meeting will also look at the issue of growing suspicion among tribes in Nigeria which came to fore at the peace talks held in Kaduna when Senate President David Mark, in a remark, publicly declared that the inability of Northern leaders and politician as well as former security chiefs to make openly condemn Boko Haram is puzzling.
Immediate past NSA, Lt. Gen Aliyu Gusua in his capacity as Guest Speaker at the 1st Shehu Musa Yar’Adua memorial lecture called for the adoption of the right strategies to curtail current security challenges facing the country.
He sounded confident that terrorism can be defeated and pointed out that the country needs a multi-dimensional strategy to address the root causes of insecurity while suppressing the negative manifestation through appropriate use of national power.
Gusau said to make the country safe and secure there must be a sound security strategy and investments in the requisite security infrastructure, adding that such strategy will determine how the nation employ the various elements of power to make the country safe.
Gusau is expected to throw more light on his kind of security strategy at today’s talks which holds in an undisclosed location in the nation’s capital. Other former NSAs that will attend include Alhaji Ismaila Gwarzo, Alhaji MD Yusuf; Alhaji Abdullahi Mohammed and Alhaji Sarki Bello among others.
The meeting which security analysts described as long over due, is also to be attended by the incumbent NSA, General Andrew Azazi.
According to our source, the meeting is expected to make far reaching recommendations that could possibly put an end to widespread wave and rise in the activities of militia groups across the country that pose serious danger and threat to Nigeria’s peaceful existence.