Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The Global Excellence Foundation (GEF) has called on the federal government to adopt the Civilian JTF approach in solving the problem of militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta region as a concept of community policing.
Its Country Director, Prof. Yemi Ola, stated this while addressing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, where he commended the federal government for absorbing members of the Civilian JTF into the army and other security agencies.
He noted that the federal government should start expanding the process by asking all military, security and para-military services to take inventory of their personnel needs in the areas covered by the Civilian JTF with a view to identifying the ones that could be filled under the absorption programme.
Ola suggested that adopting the approach in addressing the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta should not be ruled out since it worked so well in providing the community component in fighting Boko Haram in the north-east.
According to him, “Now that the militants have not started taking human life is when to bring in a sort of Civilian JTF, which is the concept of community policing that helped defeat Boko Haram terrorists in the Borno axis. President Muhammadu Buhari mustn’t wait till things in the south south gets as ugly as under Boko Haram before applying this homegrown solution.”
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