By Juliet Jacob
The Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola launched a five-year strategic plan to drive the country’s internal security system.
Aregbesola said this in his remarks at the launch of the Five-Year Strategic Plan of the ministry and its services/board in Abuja.
Aregbesola stated the plan would capitalise on the ministry’s strengths and position to significantly impact/improve the critical issues bordering Nigeria’s internal security.
His words: “The Ministry of Interior is integral to national security and prosperity in a way that many do not readily grasp. These are done through the four services of Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Nigeria Correctional Service, and the Federal Fire Service.”
“These services are primarily essential to the security of any nation and the well-being of the people. Though there are still challenges, thousands of cases that would have put the nation into chaos are addressed daily and nipped in the bud.
“Therefore to have a holistic long-term plan for these agencies and other operating arms of the ministry for their operations to be enhanced and for them to be more successful in their mission.”
In his speech he further said that “available records and information had shown that the Ministry of Interior had operated with no strategic plan and that the required synergy to drive the internal security has been absent, hence, the current level of gaps in security management in the country.
“Therefore a key part of achieving the ministry’s mandate, strategic goals and objectives by defining and articulating an executable five-year strategic plan roadmap focused on shaping its future direction while the document is underpinned by the essential synergy necessary for actualising the core mandate of the ministry which is effective internal security management and citizenship integrity.”
