Joe Abah on combating insecurity, the Civil War, State Reforms and the future of South East Nigeria

i was gonna add to that and say that's what it never ends this no struggle between good and evil it just never ends so that the government has to keep on improving because like you rightly said the bad guy will come up with or solve something else to defeat whatever good you guys come up with absolutely so you also have to innovate and bring up something else but talking of but why do you think because This rise in insecurity we are seeing, you're 100% correct.

We shouldn't see it happening because of these linkages between the national insurance number.

You should be able to track these guys down.

Why do you think the government isn't doing that then? Why are we shocked to see young people of 18, 19 making TikTok videos about the ransom that's been paid to them? Why are we seeing this kind of, maybe the word is collusion, collusion between some forces in the security architecture walking hand in glove with kidnappers and bandits? Why should someone be going to pay a ransom and allegedly the army officer is telling him not to go right but to go left? Why do we see this is going on? This thing shouldn't be happening in the 21st century.

It should be very easy to track the support down and bring them to book ball.

Why are we still where we are when it comes to this issue?

I honestly don't know.

I think there are various factors.

But first of all, let me say that I know a lot of our military personnel that are putting their lives on the line every day.

I agree.

of all of us, so we must always start from there.

In every organization, in every grouping, there will be bad eggs.

There will be policemen that will sell their rifles or lease their rifles to criminals.

There will be soldiers that will tell you that they didn't join the army to go and fight any war.

There will always be things like that.

But there are very many factors that could possibly contribute.

One is, of course, corruption.

So we've had instances where monies that should be going for military hardware were being stolen.

We've had that.

We've had a national security advisor who...

Sembu Desuki.

Right, who has been taken to court for allegedly diverting the monument for military hardware.

So you have the corruption element there.

You have the lack of security architecture.

So, again, you hardly find a policeman that has a working walkie-talkie.