Tuesday, June 17, 2025 -The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has decried the lean budgetary allocations for security agents every year.
While speaking at an event jointly organised by the House of
Representatives Committee on the Review of the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in
Abuja on Monday, June 16, Tunji-Ojo said;
‘’Look at
the 2025 budget, how much do we have for border security? That is the truth.
The whole budget for the National Immigration Service, the capital budget, is
less than N10 billion or something and you want to protect 4024 sq/km of our
border space. Are we joking? The more you kill one terrorist and the border is
porous, twenty will come in.
The military
are challenged. So for us, we need to be very realistic with ourselves. Do we
want a system that works or we just want to play to the gallery.
We have some
of the most brilliant people in our DSS. We have our NIA doing fantastically
well. You can see the kind of leadership that the NSA is providing but the
simple truth is that when we talk about security, internal security, the first
thing that comes to a Nigerian's mind is the military. That is a sign of
failure of our internal security agencies.''
Watch a video of him speaking below…
Are we joking? - Minister of Interior, TUNJI-OJO protests the small budgetary allocation for security docket pic.twitter.com/dkDAaabj2B
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