BENIN CITY- A legal practitioner Solomon Odiase Esq, has frowned at the bane of insecurity in Nigeria, opining that this hydra headed monster which is aided by corruption can be nipped in the bud through transparency, responsiveness and accountability of government.
Odiase who presented a paper, “SECURITY: A PANACEA FOR NATIONAL GROWTH,” at the NBA Benin Branch, Annual Law Week, pointed at a myriad of problems bedeviling the country, shredding its unity along the lines of religious insecurity, poverty, corruption, uncertainty of life and purpose, lack of accountability, sociocultural and educational insecurity and agricultural setback emphasized that if this trend is not halted Nigeria would go down with all the features of a failed nation state.
He observed that when there is sincerity at governance there would be transparency, responsiveness and accountability hence no reason for conflict or sources of insecurity.
Venting on raised issue he said, “Some of the sources of insecurity includes poverty which creates a gulf between the rich and the poor; inequitable allocation of resources which pits one region against the other; and injustice which makes offended parties resort to self-help, and consequently take up arms against the state. This is even as experts have expressed worries about the way the media has been projecting some of the problems confronting the country. If Nigerians do not respect and accommodate their differences and come together, they would have themselves to blame in the end.”
He observed that Nigerians now earnestly fear that the ghost of religious bigotry, if not prevented by government, will continuously rear its ugly head, making states develop at a snail pace despite affirming that peace and security is key to sustainable national transformation.
The legal practitioner stated that security and national growth are like truth and love which are tied to each other hence you cannot efficiently love someone when all you do is lie to them. He likened the onus of security to national growth and development in the same vein as with the importance of anti-retroviral drugs to an HIV patient.
