Regardless of makes an attempt to frustrate by some huge wigs from the North-west, the cabals who say “let’s see how he does it”, those that are in opposition to peaceable coexistence, and people preventing him as a result of he hails from the North-east, and since he has dismantled their profitable insecurity ventures, which they use as a money cow, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu delivered the job in 18 months, reaching what took years and appeared unimaginable.
The Nationwide Safety Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, who was extremely beneficial primarily based on his antecedents as the person who all the time will get the job finished, is the primary non-military strategist who outmaneuvered the forces of insecurity, a peacemaker who labored in partnership with many patriotic safety brokers, people to carry stability to the bandits ravaged North-west the place the navy had struggled in useless.
Ribadu’s path of triumphs in tackling the safety compromises he inherited has set him aside. It’s simple to see how his background as a specialised police officer, lawyer, and fearless investigator and prosecutor {of financial} crimes has eased him into the Workplace of the Nationwide Safety Adviser (ONSA) in only one 12 months.
Ribadu assumed the ONSA at a time when kidnapping by unknown gunmen was rampant within the South-East, with a excessive stage of oil thefts, cultism within the South-South, herders disaster within the North-central, Boko Haram insurgency within the North-east, and banditry within the North-west, which underscored the felony enterprise of terrorists who had the nation to ransom.
All because of the expertise of Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chief government of the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC), who understands that to get to the basis of the safety compromises, one should comply with the cash path linked to those crimes in opposition to the state.
This strategy is no surprise from a game-changer beneath whose watch EFCC recorded over 200 felony convictions, making it essentially the most revered anti-corruption company in Nigeria’s historical past and a mannequin for a lot of governments around the globe. Delivering a public lecture on the Mixed Convocation Ceremony of Usmanu Dan Fodiyo College, Sokoto, in April, Ribadu defined the doctrine that has outlined his strategy to fixing the nation’s multifaceted safety disaster. He argued that the way in which ahead is unorthodox.
The answer includes implementing a method that merges navy, political, and socio-economic initiatives, emphasising the necessity for cross-border cooperation, youth empowerment, and the reinforcement of native establishments. Reaching this requires inclusive dialogue, preventive measures, and regional help to make sure safety and stability.
The doctrine has pushed Ribadu’s engagements with regional and neighborhood stakeholders. For instance, within the Niger Delta, it has helped elevated crude oil production by over 500,000 barrels per day. Within the Southeast, greater than 40 police stations destroyed by criminals in recent times have been rebuilt and reactivated.
Moreover, the sit-at-home order by secessionist components is now at its weakest, recurrently ignored by residents as soon as held hostage by it. The dreaded and Abuja-Kaduna street, which was a freeway to the den of bandits and kidnappers, is now satisfactory, as individuals journey on it day by day with out concern of being kidnapped. Ribadu has ensured improved operations by way of intelligence gathering and sharing, resulting in focused actions which have resulted in a lethal blow to bandits, with essentially the most vital affect in a single 12 months because the banditry started, and high-profile leaders eradicated.
Within the North-west, bandit leaders have been decimated, with many others arrested. Abubakar Mainok, Haruna Isiya Boderi, and Kachallah Damina are among the many ISWAP kingpins neutralised in clearance operations to safe the Abuja-Kaduna expressway, and the Turji faction is on the run in Scarborough after the killing of his son. Within the North-central, the depth of farmer-herder clashes has significantly decreased.
The North-east, which has lengthy endured the ravages of Boko Haram, is now seeing not solely stability but in addition efforts in direction of reconstruction and rehabilitation to revive its former glory, with individuals returning to their houses and farms.
President Bola Tinubu, desirous of reaching his purpose of two.06 million barrels of crude oil per day as acknowledged within the 2025 funds, recognises that there have to be peace within the Niger Delta, and to attain this, the grasp strategist, Nuhu Ribadu, has been tasked with heading the reconciliation crew in Ogoniland.
The NSA is just not a typical political elite however an embodiment of affection, peace, compassion, and imaginative and prescient, who’s being beloved by one and all for his character as a beacon of transformational management. In the event you take a journey to Adamawa state and ask individuals on the street, they gives you the most effective definition of Ribadu’s persona, however he’s being hated by a couple of people from the North who’re in awe of his efficiency.
It’s barely two years since he assumed workplace, and the Nigerian authorities has efficiently secured the discharge of over 6,000 hostages, neutralised over 9,500 terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers, and arrested greater than 7,000 others. Giant portions of various weapons and ammunition have additionally been recovered.
The fast responses to rescue operations, from the liberating of the Kuriga schoolchildren to the discharge of scholars kidnapped from the Federal College of Gusau, and the latest rescue of Kogi college students coordinated by ONSA, will go down in historical past as defining moments of Ribadu’s first 12 months as NSA.
To neutralise the {economic} threats to Nigeria’s sovereignty, Ribadu participated in operations to implement motion in opposition to the culprits, significantly Binance, a serial offender in a number of international locations, in accordance with the nation’s legal guidelines. Pursuing offenders with hyperlinks to trans-border terrorism is a well-recognized terrain for him, and he’s aided by his distinguished worldwide community and repute. Ribadu has utilised his worldwide community to trace trans-border terrorists and their financiers.
You possibly can’t maintain a very good man down. Hate him or like him for no matter cause. He’s simply totally different, bent in making certain Nigeria and Nigerians are secure, protected and improvement takes the centre stage of our nation’s financial system. Sufficient of this hatred by some disgruntled politicians who had their time and ended it in disgrace. These politicians have resorted to marketing campaign of calumny, employed retailers of hate speeches in opposition to the workaholic Ribadu.
It’s excessive time Nigerians rose in opposition to these political bandits and brewers of disunity and anti progress of our expensive nation utilizing all types of techniques to destroy the nation’s picture of their gullible pursuits of eager to be in energy always, amassing wealth for themselves and their era. I name them to a desk of unity within the curiosity of everybody in Nigeria, else they need to let Nuhu Ribadu breath.