President Bola Tinibu has been urged to take extra careful on the current move to restructure the office of the National Security Adviser (NIS) described the move as I’ll advice and counter productive to the National security architecture.
The group under umbrella of Non State Actors Consultative Forum give the advice in a press statement signed by its chief convener Abdulrazaq Alkali and made available to newsmen.
According to the statement currently there is a move by some self centered persons who sponsored bill to national assembly for restructuring the office of the NSA into an agency and allowing it to recruit its own staffs, this move if eventually happened it will negatively affect the efficiency in the operations of the office of the NSA.
The statement noted that, the office of the NSA is known to be one of the only offices that work with highly professional and skilled staffs extracted from the various security agencies mainly based on merit, skills and capacity.
“If NSA office allowed to follow the route of the other agencies and parastatals, there is the risk of politicizing the agency through biased and unjustified recruitments as witness in many government agencies (including some security agencies) and if this happens in the office of the NSA it will not serve the interest of our national security.
The statement further explained that, passing this bill will mean that the overall office of the NSA infrastructure will have to be overhauled to avoid conflict with the sections of the constitution that establish it or the section of the constitution will have to be changed to accommodate the bill”
‘it added that,r e-structuring the office of the NSA into an agency or parastatal with unlimited privileges over the already existing intelligence agencies such as National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Department of State Service (DSS), and Military. This has the potential of creating many overlaps in the functions of these agencies and will further widen disunity, rivalry and lack of synergy between the various security agencies”.
“Presently the NSA has been the fulcrum of maintaining and enforcing co-operation between the security agencies, and one key component of its success is due to the fact that it derives staffs and collaborations from the various security agencies, such that the agencies do not see the office of the NSA as a rival agency” the statement warned
