NSCDC, INTERIOR, IPCR, UNDP COLLABORATE, PROMOTES SYNERGY AMONGST SECURITY AGENCIES.

It is noted globally, that Intelligence sharing is the soul of effective security, and the ability to exchange Intelligence Information, facts or knowledge among Security Agencies and other Stakeholders aid to improve national security.

Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abdullahi Muhammadu, gave the declaration in the just concluded Inter-Security Agency Summit with the theme: Inter Agency Collaboration on Intelligence Sharing and Effective Coordination of Violent Conflicts and Crisis Management.

Muhammadu highlighted that the Corps, with the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the United Nations Development Programme, took the bold initiative to bring together the NSCDC and other Security Agencies to rub minds on the importance of working together with a common understanding that, achieving success in a secure society, there is need for synergy and collaboration.

The Commandant General spoke through Acting Deputy Commandant General Operations, Hillary Madu.

Resident Representative United Nations Development ProgrammeCountry, Pa Lamin Beyai, pointed out that the training on intelligence sharing and effective coordination was critical and a response to an identified gap in the operationalization of the national security architecture.

Beyai maintained that when Security Agencies effectively collaborate in the sharing of intelligence and response to violent conflicts or crisis of any nature, efficiency of operations, judicious use of resources and sustainable results are significantly improved upon.

Air Commodore Darlington Abdullahi, who spoke on behalf of the Resource Persons, asserted that coordination was important in any organisation or between organisations to be able to achieve a goals or objectives.

Darlington further posited that the summit is to enhance collaboration and build a very strong and robust synergy among the various Security Agencies, especially, in the area of intelligence sharing.

The Participants at the workshop agreed that synergy among Security Agencies was a must, and agreed to pass the message to other Officers and Men in their respective Organisations.