INSECURITY: TAKING ACTIONS AGAINST ORGANIZED CRIME. KEYNOTE SPEECH BY MINISTER OF @FMWHNIG, @tundefashola, AT THE 4TH ANNUAL LECTURE ORGANIZED BY THE UNITED ACTION FOR CHANGE AT THE DIGITAL BRIDGE INSTITUTE , LAGOS.
@FMWHNIG @tundefashola The ability to mobilize well-armed, well trained, well funded security personnel to a point of crisis in a pre-emptive or reactive manner only helps to achieve enforcement of the law. It does not guaranty security, if there is no peace.
One of the points of action that to commit to, is to seek to identify the causes or sources of conflict amongst people, groups of people, and communities, and seek to eliminate, resolve or manage them better, in a quest for permanent peace; and, by extension, security.
Majority of the issues that heighten the spectre of insecurity are deliberate. They are often driven by reward, in cash or kind. What the world (and by extension Nigeria) is contending with is not just insecurity and crime, it is insecurity escalated by ORGANIZED CRIME!!!
Why does it require more than law enforcement and persons of influence to make all of us safe?
INFORMATION:
The collection of information and the use of it to prevent crime or apprehend criminal activity is often discussed as if it is the prerogative of law enforcement agencies alone.
The collection of information and the use of it to prevent crime or apprehend criminal activity is often discussed as if it is the prerogative of law enforcement agencies alone.
There is no magic to intelligence gathering. It is rooted in civic responsibility. One institution of civic participation that we must revive, reform and re-Use is the RESIDENTS/LANDLORDS ASSOCIATION. We need them very quickly.
OPEN SPACES/ EMPTY BUILDINGS:
By law, State governments control urban and development planning, and how these powers are exercised or not exercised affects how law enforcement agencies perform and how criminals can either escape justice or be apprehended.
By law, State governments control urban and development planning, and how these powers are exercised or not exercised affects how law enforcement agencies perform and how criminals can either escape justice or be apprehended.
State Governments must use the provision of the Land Use Act to reduce and ultimately eliminate the number of 6 abandoned, uncompleted buildings in their states. They constitute an easy refuge not only for destitute but also for people with untoward intentions.
By planning laws, the PROPERTY LINE of residents ends where their fence or land beacon ends as shown in their survey plans.
Every piece of land beyond the property line belongs to the government. The unauthorized uses of the public spaces are liable to sanctions by law under any vigilant government.
It is the DUTY of Civil and Public Servants to understand this, and take steps to Occupy, Dominate and Manage these spaces for lawful activity only.
Urban and town planning departments are important building blocks for law enforcement and security, and critical points of immediate action against organized crime.
ROAD TRAFFIC LAW; OKADA VEHICLE LISENCE/REGISTRATION:
Stolen vehicles, unregistered (and therefore anonymous) tricycles, and motorcycles constitute a vast area of neglect we must attend to especially at State level where road traffic laws have been enacted but largely unenforced
Stolen vehicles, unregistered (and therefore anonymous) tricycles, and motorcycles constitute a vast area of neglect we must attend to especially at State level where road traffic laws have been enacted but largely unenforced
The Attorneys-General of the States, the Speakers of all State Houses of Assembly and legislators must be visionary and far sighted in developing legislative reforms that cover and dominate this space of criminal operation.
