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Alex OttI, Governor of Abia State, has said that if intelligence gathering is properly deployed, Nigeria Security Agencies would be able to nip in the bud crimes, criminality and insecurity.
Govrrnor OttI therefore charged men of Nigeria Army to pay attention to intelligence gathering in order to nip issues of insecurity in the bud.
He stated this at Government House, Umuahiia while receiving in audience a delegation of Course 47 of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College of Nigeria led by Eniefiok Uko, Rear Admiral and Deputy Commandant and Director of Studies of the Command,
He noted that if intelligence was deployed properly, Nigeria security Agencies would be able to nip in the bud criminality and insecurity.
“A lot of times, if you pay attention to intelligence, you will be able to nip in the bud majority of the cases before they happen.
“So, pay attention to intelligence. It’s good that, that is what this course is about too.
“We have also held a strong view that security starts from intelligence. Thorough and well put together intelligence would always predict and sometimes put the forces in a state of readiness,” the governor stated.
The governor described as interesting, that Nigeria has foreign students coming to train in the country, adding that it is a mark of confidence that Nigeria has a disciplined and trained military.
Governor Otti stated that an example of discipline was how the military men in Abia had worked diligently with his Government to eradicate crime and criminality in the State.
The governor, who congratulated the students and thanked the leadership for finding Abia worthy for the study tour, assured of his commitment to working with the Security Agencies in sustaining peace in Abia State.
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Uko, the leader of the delegation, earlier in his speech, said that students of Course 47 were in Abia as part of the senior course curriculum, called environmental study tour of Nigeria army, with the theme “Harnessing Grassroots Intelligence for Enhanced Internal Security”.
He said that the study tour would enable them to come to the field and consolidate on the theoretical teachings they had received in the College.
“So, the students are here in Abia State to look at Abia and the existing structures which can be galvanized, towards assisting the government and also the security agencies with veritable intelligence.
“If there are practices here that we can adopt, we will adopt them as best practices and they will take it back to wherever they serve, all with a view to ensuring that national security is enhanced in Nigeria”, he noted.
He, however, thanked Governor Alex Otti for accepting to host the Course 47 in the State and for the arrangements and logistics that were put in place to make them comfortable in the State.
