Former governor blames bombings on lack of intelligence
Saminu Turaki, a
serving senator and former governor of Jigawa State, has attributed the
recent spate of bombings in Nigeria to the failure of adequate
intelligence sharing among law enforcements agents in the country.
Mr. Turaki, during
an interview with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2, Lagos,
over the weekend, said that it is time for the government to deploy
sophisticated equipment in its fight against crime, adding that Nigeria
has come of age to have state of the art technology. “What we require
is a very good intelligence system like using ICT and satellite so that
we can see what is happening.
“You know in this
era of technology we have to use technology and we need a lot of
intelligence. So, I think it is a failure of intelligence. We have to
change our intelligence gathering system, because to prevent terrorism
is very difficult but if you have very good intelligence then you can
do that, for it is a threat to the nation,” Mr. Turaki said.
Call for positive thinking
Mr. Turaki also
urged Nigerians to desist from negative thoughts and tendencies that
are capable of dragging the nation backwards, adding that citizens and
the government should plan for the future and break away from the
depressing events of the past.
“Government is not about personal thing and I think the biggest problem we have as a nation is that of planning.
“Strategically, you see every country come together to plan for the
next 20, 30, 40 years, but in Nigeria, all we are thinking is negative.
So I think the most important thing is for us to plan. Where will
Nigeria be in the next 50 years? There is a shift from resources
economy to knowledge based economy. But Nigeria is in the primitive
years of mono-culture economy, and it is said that the mono-technology,
molecular biology and others, each of them mono-technology, will be 30
times bigger than the telecom revolution we have today. So, I think we
should be thinking of the future, not the past. Our biggest problem is
that we are rooted in the past,” he said.
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