‘Effective Information, Management Solution To Insecurity’

The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, yesterday said effective management and dissemination of undistorted information by the relevant stakeholders  to the public would help curb insecurity in the country.
Yahaya said this at the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information (NASPRI) 2022 Media Workshop with  the theme: “Harnessing Whole of Society Approach to Curb the Menace of Information Disorder: National Security in Perspective.”
The COAS was represented by the Chief of Supply and Transportation of the Nigerian Army (NA),  Brig.-Gen. Lateef Jimoh,  at a workshop held at  the NA’s  Officers’ Mess, Victoria Island, Lagos State.
Yahaya said managing security challenges in the country depended solely on effective dissemination of information orchestrated by mutual support among various security agencies and stakeholders in information management.
“It is pertinent to note that with the media as partners in progress, the military and other relevant security agencies have recorded a lot of successes in our various operations.
“I, therefore, urge that the synergy be aggressively sustained so that efforts in protecting our national security will be conveyed to the general public through positive narratives,” he said.
Similarly, Yahaya called on Nigerian media practitioners and other stakeholders in information management to consider the propagation of the  message of peace as their responsibility.
“This is done by ensuring that you release objective and factual stories that will foster national cohesion.
“This is achievable through propagation of messages and narratives that are not detrimental to our national unity.
“The achievement of national security as we all know is the collective responsibility of all citizens of our great nation,” he said.
He added that the focus of the  workshop was how to  confront information disorder including misinformation, through holistic mobilisation of the whole society with national security in perspective.
He reminded the participants that the nation was contending with numerous security challenges such as: insurgency, armed banditry, separatist agitations, kidnap for ransom among other social vices.

By: Canice Amadi, Enugu