Insecurity: Nigeria needs infrastructure to harness technology – Ex-CDS, Irabor

Former Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor (Rtd), has said Nigeria requires capable infrastructure to afloat harness exertion successful tackling insecurity crossed the country.
Irabor spoke connected Thursday during a Channels Television unrecorded programme, “Generation Next: Youth, Power & The Future We Must Build,” organised arsenic portion of activities marking Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day anniversary.

The erstwhile defence main explained that the situation was not needfully the lack of technological solutions but the deficiency of supporting infrastructure and the integration required to marque antithetic technologies enactment effectively.

“It is not astir the non-availability of tech solutions oregon the non-application of tech solutions. First, you indispensable recognize that nary substance the exertion that you have, determination has to beryllium an infrastructure wrong which you are to use those tech solutions.

“And then, those tech solutions indispensable besides beryllium integrated due to the fact that determination is nary azygous exertion or, if you like, azygous exertion that addresses the complexity of the threats that we have.
“So, the wide infrastructure helps you to harmonise oregon integrate each the applications that you person for it to beryllium capable to marque sense, and I deliberation that is wherever the situation lies,” Irabor said.

Using drones arsenic an example, Irabor said their effectiveness successful information operations depend...