With kidnapping now the most lucrative industry in Nigeria the National Assembly needs to pass an Emergency Security Measures Bill

Ayo Akinfe

(1) The intelligence agencies must be compelled to publish details of any politician, monarch or publicly exposed person on whom they have information that he could be a sponsor of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers or hoodlums

(2) Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its splinter groups must be declared terrorist organisations

(3) Divisional police officers must be given the mandate to arrest everyone who is still in possession of an AK47 by May 1 2021

(4) Mobile courts will be established to try hoodlums in forests

(5) Nigerian Army units will be deployed to schools across northern Nigeria to offer protection

(6) The federal government must fund regional security groups like Amotekun and the Eastern Security Network

(7) The Nigerian Army must be deployed along our northern border to address the matter of gun smuggling

(8) The federal government must ask international military organisations like Nato to provide them with intelligence and surveillance data and video footage on all terrorist activities in their possession

(9) Nigeria currently has a negative police-to-citizens ratio of 350,000 to 100,000 inhabitants. A major recruitment drive must be initiated to increase this to the United Nations average of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. We are in serious deficit at the moment

(10) The federal government must initiate plans to launch dedicated anti-terror and elite commando units in both the Nigeria Police Force and the three arms of the military services