
Mohammed Badaru
The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, recently had his say while speaking during the ministerial briefing in Abuja, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, Nigeria clearly needs the overhaul more than it needs a security summit right now, and he doesn’t understand the relevance of the Senate’s proposed national security summit when a different strategy is urgently required.
He added that even if the summit will help bring people together to discuss the problem, formulating a strategy that will solve our insecurity issues is more important right now.
His words, “On the summit, yes, strategy is far more important than summit. But summit will give you some inputs for the strategy. When you hold a summit, you have people, they talk. We take what they expect, and we go back to design or renew our strategy.
And then the chief of Defence staff gives operational orders based on the strategy they developed. So what the National Assembly is trying to do may be to bring people together to discuss issues.
I visited most of the past defense ministers. I visited most of the past service chiefs to discuss issues of security during their time and what we see today and how we do. And I’m sure the service chiefs also did the same.
So, the summit can help, but the strategy is much more important.”
WOW.