A former member of the House of Representatives, Robinson Uwak has called on the federal and state governments to save Nigeria from total state failure due to spiralling insecurity.
Robinson Uwak warned that the country was gradually descending into anarchy and lawlessness with the high rate of insecurity in the country.
Robinson Uwak said it was dangerous for the survival and progress of the country for its territories to be ceded to criminal elements who are currently wrecking havoc across the country.
“No nation attracts the needed investment and achieves the necessary growth and overall wellbeing of its citizens when swaths of its territory are under the control of criminal non-state actors,” Robinson Uwak said.
Robinson Uwak continued, “I am worried by the increasing descent to lawlessness and the turn into a failing state.”
Robinson Uwak said the security strategy to be implemented must not be that of witchhunt of political opponents or self-preservation of the ruling elite but that of protection of lives and properties of the people and putting in place law and order in the entire country.
Robsinson Uwak charged the government to adopt two approaches to solving the security challenges with soft approach, which is ensuring productive engagement to the people and engaging all genuine grievances, and the hard approach, which would entail the deployment of modern equipments to end the nefarious activities of non-state actors.
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