A retired naval officer, Commodore Promise Dappah, has known as on the Federal Authorities to spend more cash on security instead of executing different projects within the nation.
Dappah made this name on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on Channels Tv monitored by DAILY POST.
He was talking on nationwide security, stressing that the security of the nation comes first earlier than every other factor.
“So, what I’m saying is the difficulty of securitization. As a result of when a nation comes underneath this sort of a state of affairs, there may be what we name securitization. That’s the place security takes priority over all the pieces.
“Nation like Algeria that’s not even going through the sort of challenges we’ve got right here is spending as much as 10% of their GDP on protection. So what are we speaking about? Then we which are neck deep in insecurity, we’re spending lower than 1% of our GDP on protection, and we’ve got the luxurious of constructing fancy projects within the nation.
“When individuals are not secure, the nation shouldn’t be secure, and also you dare to construct projects? What projects that might be higher than the security of the nation? You construct bridges, construct fort within the air. You possibly can get up tomorrow and all the pieces shall be down.
“So to me, I feel we should securitize security situation. Security comes at first. Authorities should transfer cash, allocate a complete chunk of assets for protection of this nation and the individuals,” he mentioned.
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