Former Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Lucky Irabor (rtd) has urged the Federal Government to declare a full-scale onslaught against bandits and insurgents unleashing violence across Nigeria.
General Irabor made this call on Monday, when he featured in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television.
He stated that no legal instruments indicate that Nigeria is at war.
“There are no legal instruments indicating that Nigeria is at war. There’s none; we’re only assuming that we are at war.
“Of course, there is a need to declare war in order to aggregate the elements of state power directly to the war effort,” he said.
According to him, by declaring war, resources would be directly channeled toward tackling the perpetrators.
“It will make a huge difference because resourcing, of course, will now be properly channelled, and then accountability frameworks can now be properly outlined in such a manner that we’re able to see results for some of the expenditures that we make.
“By the way, let me also say that it is not just the military line of operation. We’re talking about the aggregate of the deployment of the elements of state power beyond just military power that will help us,” he added.
Nigeria needs to declare war on terrorists – Ex-CDS Irabor