A civil society and citizen’s groups coalition known as Citizens Stability Forum has called on the security agencies in Nigeria to act on intelligence provided by the Department of State Services DSS.
This was contained in a statement signed by the lead convener , Comrade Mukhtar Lawal and made available to newsmen in Dutse, the jigawa state capital.
According to him, the current insecurity happening in some parts of the country have exposed the lack of collaboration and synergy between security agencies in the country.
He added that, the most disturbing aspect was the continuous disregard to security intelligence provided by the Department of State Services DSS to the military, police and paramilitary security agencies.
“As such when there is inefficiency in collaboration or a lack of synergy with other security agencies the result will be that criminals and terrorist will be having a field day and will be pulling up acts of terrorism that will otherwise be impossible for them”.
“Inadequate cooperation and synergy among relevant authorities led to the loss of lives while many hospitalised and over sixty civilians kidnapped by terrorist at Kaduna-Abuja train attack as well as terrorist attack on Kuje Prison on the 5th of July 2022 where they succeeded in releasing their fellow colleagues”.
Comrade Mukhtar Lawal commended the excellent leadership from the DSS hierarchy led by Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi
He added that, the DG has instilled commitment, diligence, and pro-activeness in tackling insecurity across the county.
The statement therefore urged security agencies to secure the country by working collectively as it is the responsibility of the Presidency to ensure the safety of every citizens.
Usman Mohammed Zaria
