The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, says the level of insecurity in the country today calls for an urgent need to reforms the country’s security architecture.

It states that the level of insecurity in the form of armed robbery, baditry, kidnappings, killings, insurgency, shows an urgent need for reforms to deal with the issues.

Its Executive Director, Auwal Musa-Rafsanjani, advocated for reforms in the security sector to guarantee a more accountable and professional security outfit that will ensure the protection of lives and properties of Nigerian citizens with competence and clarity.

Musa-Rafsanjani also called for transparency and accountability in defence and security spending and targeted investigation by National Assembly into reported unaccounted spending on weapons.

He asked for adequate legislative oversight by relevant Committees in the National Assembly into the nation’s Defence and Security procurement and spending to restore efficiency, transparency and accountability into the sector.

According to him, diversion of defence and security funds to private pockets through procurement process constitutes a serious threat to defence and security sector and services; and has left security operatives ill-equipped, poorly-remunerated and demoralised in spite the persistently increased budgetary allocation and spending from 2015 to date.

In his words, failures or refusal of the sector to make its spending public continues to frustrate effort by Civil Society groups to track the nation’s investment in the military, security and allied agencies, saying to this end, Defence personnel and Security operatives are rendered incapacitated from curbing violence, insurgency, banditry and kidnapping.”

He said corruption was at the root of insecurity in Nigeria, thus, if the nation must deal with insecurity squarely, corruption must be dealt with, and also oversight function on security agencies was weak, especially in the light of the fact that the biggest issue in Nigeria’s insecurity crisis is human security.

Musa-Rafsanjani made this known while granting interviews with Journalists on the sideline of a one-day Media Workshop on Defence Anti-Corruption Reportage, Civic Space, and Oversight,’ in Lagos, organised by CISLAC, in collaboration with Transparency International – Defence and Security programme with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.