The Federal Government has been cautioned against engaging mercenaries in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents and bandits.
Jimoh Ahmed Ayinla, a peace scholar and security expert equally urged the government to weigh the consequential effects of inviting and relying on mercenaries in the fight against terrorism, insurgency, and Boko Haram.
Ayinla, who is a lecturer at Kwara State College of Education, stated this in an interview with some journalists in Ilorin the state capital.
He warns that as a sovereign nation, Nigeria’s integrity should not be compromised for whatever reason, rather, he says the government should provide more modern war equipment and better welfare packages for the members of the Nigerian Armed Forces, as incentives to further motivate them to tackle the insurgents headlong
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“It is when all these are religiously carried out that the menace will be drastically reduced. Nigeria has a sovereign nation, it’s integrity should not be compromised to any external forces. The government should rather provide modern war equipment and proper welfare packages to the armed forces,” he said.
Ayinla admonished Nigeria’s security chiefs to stop unfolding strategies to be employed in combating the menace, adding that “urgent steps are needed in reappraising the present strategies which could not bring the required result. There is the need to map out more effective and efficient methods of fighting the Boko – Haram and other related crimes in Nigeria.”
