Insecurity: FG should overhaul the nation’s internal security mechanism – COCIN

Following the sectarian violence, suicide bombing and other forms of security challenges bedeviling the nation, especially in the Northern part of the country; the Church of Christ in Nations,COCIN, has call on the Federal Government to urgently overhaul the operations of the nation’s internal security in other to address the aforementioned challenges.


The President of COCIN, Dr. Soja Bewarang stated this on Tuesday, during the opening of the Church’s 82nd General Church Council meeting, ongoing at its Headquarters in Jos.
According to him, “Although, much has been achieved, more still needs to be done. What we need urgently is to have a thorough overhaul of the operations of our internal security mechanism, so as to respond to the new wave of attacks, tha come with increase severity,sophistication and unpredictability.”

On the amnesty consideration for the Boko Haram sect which the Federal Government has setup a committee to handle, the COCIN President said, “As a Church, we can say with a strong voice that evil must not be glorified.
Negative rewards in most cases breed delinquency and compensation must be given to families and Churches that have suffered unquantifiable human and material lost.
Speaking on the level of poverty in the country, the Cleric said 90% of the nation’s population is living in abject poverty.
Rev. Bewarang, further stated that, corruption which he described as “A canker worm, has refused to die and the common man is groaning under it”.
He decried that some cases of corruption in the nation appear legendary, saying it is both in the high and low places.
Stressing that, “Needless to say, that the damage corruption inflicts on man and his sense of dignity is perhaps similar to the damage and destruction which any murder case leaves in its trail-shattered dreams, dashed hopes and a sense of misery and despair”.