Peace Corps asks Nigerian govt to adopt  US, UK, Canada models to combat insecurity

The Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN) has urged the Federal Government to follow the information models of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil to combat the country’s worsening insecurity and support Nigerians from terrorists, bandits and different criminals.
To execute this, the corps said the Federal Government should recognise that nationalist information is an expansive ecosystem requiring specialised auxiliary agencies, alternatively than placing the load wholly connected a fewer kinetic, heavy equipped formations.

The corps besides canvassed the request for the authorities to look beyond accepted methods and clasp strategic, non-kinetic partnerships successful tackling the worsening insecurity to trim hostility crossed the country.

Addressing the media connected Friday successful Abuja connected the authorities of the nation, the National Commandant of the corps, Dr Dickson Ameh Akoh, said Nigeria’s modern information threats tin beryllium much efficaciously addressed by afloat integrating the economical and administrative doctrine of the part of labour into its defence framework.

According to him, “Forcing overstretched accepted information agencies to stray from their superior mandates to screen each brushed people dilutes operational focus, fuels jurisdictional friction and leaves captious spaces vulnerable.

He explained that by embracing a multi-tiered attack that utilises auxiliary stru...