Bassey Osagie : Nigerians serving in different security services across the globe are ready to assist Edo State

Nigerians serving in different security services across the globe are ready to serve their country in bringing an end to the insecurity plaguing Nigeria. This was disclosed by a Nigerian Canadian Police Officer, Sgt. Detective Bassey Osagie who has been serving the Toronto, Ontario, Canadian Police Service which is the largest municipal police force in Canada for 22 years, during an interview on Diaspora Discourse, a live interview radio programme on Spirit of Nigeria Radio at the weekend.

Bassey Osagie explained that there are Nigerians in top positions in security services of developed nations with the patriotic commitment, network, intelligence and capacity to assist Nigeria in surmounting her current insecurity challenges. He, therefore, challenged the leadership of the nation to demonstrate the required political will and ensure that requests for foreign support are properly coordinated and channelled.

The Nigerian Canadian Toronto Police Service Officer who was of the opinion that Nigeria’s current security architecture needed a reconfiguration further exposed the need to decentralise power in the Nigeria Police Force. According to him “Crime is localised, Crime is not foreign, if you want to deal with crime, you have to get the people on the ground in that local area. That is why we have Municipal policing here in Canada”

Sgt Detective Osagie who cautioned that state police should only happen if Nigeria has strong federal police to police the state police, identified the major challenges bedevilling security agencies in Nigeria as leadership, wrong recruitment process, poor remuneration, inadequate or lack of compensation, obsolete equipment, training, poor intelligence gathering and lack of the deployment of modern technology.

The Edo State-born police officer who is willing to serve his country under “strict conditions” is starting a radio programme on security titled “Diaspora Cop” on Spirit of Nigeria Radio also stated equivocally that a well planned military campaign by Nigerians in Diaspora Security Services can neutralise bandits, terrorists and kidnappers troubling Nigeria in six months.