A security expert, Daniel Oluwadare, has urged the Federal Government (FG) and corporate bodies to include more youths in the security system to discourage them from crisis.
Oluwadare, commander of Civil Elite Service, a para-millitary group, spoke exclusively with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, saying that the current security challenges in the country need more volunteers to compliment efforts of the nation’s various security agencies.
“The nation’s security architecture should be applauded but it needs more hands and the youths are the best target.
Crisis are carried out by the youths but when you fruitfully engage them, you’ll reduce their vulnerability of being victims to crime.
“The FG and other cooperate bodies should engage more Youths on the streets because they are always ready to lay down their lives for any cause,” he said.
He appealed to the government to look beyond the existing security agencies and consider using the youths because “if we fail to engage them, the devil will engage them.”
He noted that when more youths are engaged with security issues, it would reduce the involvement of youths in various crises in the country.
“As the country is facing security challenges, it would be good to engage youths and even train those on the streets and make them useful.
“The peace of our nation is very important. We should expand our security by involving them and keep the youths off crime,” he told NAN.
He said the main focus of the Civil Elite Service group is to assist the nation’s security agencies in protecting civic rights and promoting peace in the country.
“We realised that the security agencies needed assistance to meet up with increasing insecurity in the country, and our organisation, which was established in July 2015, is a private effort to compliment the effort of existing security agencies.
“Our headquarters is in Lagos, and we have branches in Osun, Ogun, Oyo, and outside the country, in Turkey,” he said.
He told NAN that the group, duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, is still seeking for sponsorship.
“We are currently in the process of getting affiliation with the FG and National Youth Council of Nigeria but we are already partnering with Lagos State Government,” he added.
