Minister of Interior, Retired Lieutenant-General Abdulrahman Dambazau, has reiterated the strategic importance of education in countering criminal “narratives’’ in the country.

Dambazau said this at the graduation ceremony of Executive Intelligence Management Course 9 at the Institute for Security Studies, Abuja, saying for a country facing Insurgency and other security threats, there was need for security agencies to deepen collaboration among each other in order to share intelligence.

He also stressed the importance of education in shaping the capacity of officers to collate, analyse, and share intelligence on the basis of the need to know for efficient crime management.

Dambazau said there was need to cover the security space provided by the internet which had inadvertently heighten crime sophistication, lauding the DSS for extending critical security knowledge to other agencies, while hoping that the benefiting officers would internalise lessons learnt from the course.

He said one of the greatest challenges facing the nation’s security was the lack of credible intelligence, stressing that education was key to addressing it.