The Southern Nigeria People’s Mandate (SNPM), a pan socio-political and grassroots based organisation, has urged President Bola Tinubu to approve the recruitment of more personnel into security agencies to eliminate security challenges in the country.
Chairman of SNPM, Chief Augustine Chukwudum, told journalists in Enugu, Sunday that inadequate security personnel had made bandits and terrorists operate at will and for hours unchallenged.
Chukwudum noted that it was regrettable that for over 15 years, “There seems to be no end to banditry, terrorism and heinous crimes within the northern part of the country.”
He said the insecurity in the North is drifting to the South-West and the current dimension “is overwhelming security personnel.”
The violent and criminal non-state actors have taken over 85 per cent of farmlands in the northern part of the country; formed their own government and forced farmers and communities to pay taxes to them.
“Those who resist are kidnapped and asked to pay huge ransom running into several millions of naira yearly.
“The same pattern of insecurity by non-state actors is drifting to the southern part of the country, especially the South-West and it is already causing prices of food stuff to skyrocket,” he said.