Former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase has blamed the lingering insecurity in Nigeria on the unhealthy rivalry among security agencies in the country.
Speaking at a roundtable on Enhancing National Security through Inter-Agencies Collaboration organised by the Buratai Centre for Contemporary Security Affairs, Igbinedion University, Okada, Arase stated that no individual agency can handle insecurity alone.
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The former IGP who called for cooperation between security agencies to ensure that insecurity issues are tackled and security policies are successfully implemented, also called for a review of the existing national security policy and apparatus that would instruct all military and paramilitary agencies as even partners in security.