• Chief Akande at the Oslo forum
    Speeches

    MIXED BLESSINGS FOR STABILITY IN NIGERIA: VIGILANTE IN NIGERIA

    There had been two effective security arrangements in most parts of Nigeria. The traditional local volunteer hunters and the salaried conventional government’s military and para-military systems (i.e. the Army, the police etc). The traditional local volunteer hunters were most effective as forest guards, intelligence gatherers and fighters during the native authority days. The system dissipated when they feel preferred and replaced by the salaried conventional government’s military and paramilitary that are trained in the use of modern superior weapons. Unfortunately, the system of salaried conventional government’s military and paramilitary staffing, managements and deployments soon gave way to indolence, arm twisting and bribery taking and almost totally lapsed into ineffectiveness. For…