Former Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has said President Bola Tinubu’s recently declared nationwide security emergency will remain ineffective unless those sponsoring or sabotaging national security efforts are arrested and prosecuted.

Amachree made the remarks on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, while responding to concerns over internal sabotage in the military and the worsening insecurity across the country.

He said, “I think there is need that for this state of emergency to be more effective, there should be arrests.

“Let us not just mention that these people have been identified as financiers and we’ve not seen any arrest.”

He insisted that announcements alone are insufficient, stressing the importance of decisive action to restore public confidence.

He said, “There should be arrest, and of course we should create fears in their hearts to make them be sure that they cannot just do anything and get away with it.”

Amachree, responding to reports of military withdrawal prior to the kidnapping of schoolgirls in Kebbi and the killing of Major General Musa Uba, warned that saboteurs within both the military and political class must be exposed.

“I think that there are saboteurs, and we should know that both in the military and in politics, they are all over the place,” he said.

He, however, expressed confidence in the new Minister of Defence, Gen. Christopher Musa (retd.), who he said had already declared his intention to go after those undermining security efforts.

Naijaonpoint recalls that President Tinubu, on November 26, declared a nationwide security emergency in response to a recent surge in banditry, terrorism, and mass abductions.

The President approved the expansion of police and military recruitment and directed the use of selected NYSC camps as training centres for security personnel.

He also said police training infrastructure across the country had been upgraded as part of the strategy to bolster internal security.

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