major threat to the 2019 general election.
DSS Director General, Lawal Daura, raised the alarm in a presentation
he made before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the
Current Security Infrastructure in Nigeria.
The committee is headed by Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan.
Presenting a 38-page report at the Senate Plenary on Wednesday, Lawan
said Daura told the committee that Nigeria may witness violence "with
all the hate speeches and insecurity prevailing in the polity."
The lawmaker quoted the DSS boss as saying "the country is getting
more divided like never before due to the lack of synergy between the
traditional institutions and the security agencies, as well as hate
speeches that have dominated the political space."
Lawan further explained that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General
Yusuf Buratai, on his part, identified the country's major security
challenges to include Boko Haram threats, militancy, cultism,
secessionist and extremist groups, inter-ethnic, religious and
communal violence.
Buratai was also said to have expressed concern over inadequate
intelligence information sharing mechanisms among security agencies,
inadequate resourcing of security agencies,administration of criminal
justice system, porous borders and poor border controls, poverty,
unemployment and lack of opportunities and cultural and social
impediments.
Lawan said the committee observed that the security agencies require
professional skills, equipment and technology to contain security
issues, adding that the agencies lacked critical equipment and where
they existed, they were obsolete.
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