Why appointment of Gen Famadewa as Homeland Security Adviser is good for Nigeria – Ayobami

A nationalist affairs expert and information expert, Maurice Ayobami, has explained wherefore President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s caller assignment of Major General Adeyinka Famadewa (retd.) arsenic Special Adviser connected Homeland Security is captious to tackling the insecurity bedevilling the country.

In a connection on Friday, Ayobami said the instauration of the bureau reflects strategical adaptation to Nigeria’s evolving information scenery alternatively than organization weakness.

Recall that President Tinubu appointed Famadewa arsenic his advisor connected homeland security.

The determination generated mixed reactions, with immoderate radical supporting the determination portion others opposed it.

DAILY POST reports that Prof. Femi Otubanjo, a probe prof astatine the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, faulted Famadewa’s appointment.

Reacting, Ayobami argued that modern information threats person go progressively decentralised, asymmetric, and technologically sophisticated, requiring governments crossed the satellite to continuously redesign their coordination structures and argumentation responses.

“To construe the assignment of a Special Adviser connected Homeland Security arsenic an admittance of nonaccomplishment is to fundamentally misunderstand the quality of modern information management,” Ayobami said.

“Serious governments evolve. Serious administrations reappraisal their struc...