The former Head of Directorate of military intelligence Brigadier General Halliru Akilu (RTD) said lack of consultation on former security chiefs is one of the reasons why insurgency and banditry are taking their toll on the lives of Nigerians.
The retired military officer made the statement in a video interview with KAFTAN Television which was obtained by the NIGERIAN TRACKER.
General Akilu said before the year 2015 there was a committee of retired security chiefs including all former chiefs of Defence staff and former inspectors general of police and former head of intelligence agencies.
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The General told the TV crew that since the coming of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari the government has never consulted former security experts including him on the way out of the present security quagmire.
He said intelligence gathering is very essential in doing away with insurrection but it’s yet to be quelled because no one in the government led by President Muhammadu is consulting him to tap from his experience as an intelligence officer so also his superiors and former colleagues.
General Akilu added that the same thing is applied to people like retired General ALiyu Gusau and others.
According to General Akilu people like General, ALiyu GUsau has been all his life intelligence chief but he is not being consulted on issues of security.
He also informed KAFTAN television that during the second republic when there was Maitatsiine insurrection Kano as the battalion commander who dislodged Marwa and his co-conspirators he used people who live inside the city of Kano and who have the foreknowledge of how the place Yan AWAKi is before troops descended on Maitasine and killed him along BUK Road all in 12 hours.
General Halliru Akilu also advises the federal government to use the strategy adopted by General Yakubu Gowon during the civil war by remobilizing and reintegrating old hands in the military to defeat insurgency and banditry once and for all.
The over 70-year-old retired General added that President Muhammadu Buhari would have shelved the idea of securing a second term in office by allowing more capable hands to take over so that he becomes a hero and his name written on the marble.
He said General Ibrahim Babangida was accused of planning to perpetuate himself in power but when he realized that the people no longer needed him he voluntarily step aside and retired to his Minna country home.
