Insecurity: Nigeria Needs To Declare War On Terrorists, Ex-CDS Irabor

Nigeria’s former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has called on the Federal Government to declare a full-scale onslaught against bandits and insurgents unleashing violence across Nigeria.

According to him, no legal instruments indicate that Nigeria is at war.
“There are no legal instruments indicating that Nigeria is at war. There’s none; we’re only assuming that we are at war.

“Of course, there is a need to declare war in order to aggregate the elements of state power directly to the war effort,” the general said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.

Irabor stated that by declaring war, resources would be directly channeled toward tackling the perpetrators.

The former CDS said, “It will make a huge difference because resourcing, of course, will now be properly channelled, and then accountability frameworks can now be properly outlined in such a manner that we’re able to see results for some of the expenditures that we make.

“By the way, let me also say that it is not just the military line of operation. We’re talking about the aggregate of the deployment of the elements of state power beyond just military power that will help us.”