Former Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin (retd.) has dropped a bombshell.

He said; “I want to say that the solution to insecurity is multi-pronged. We talk about conventional warfare and asymmetric warfare.”

“We are talking about hybrid warfare, where every one is involved. It is not about kinetics. Kinetics give only 35 per cent success rate in fighting wars.”

“It is a national approach that must be properly galvanised for us to actually surmount the insecurity. Three years ago, I conducted a research on the forests in the country, and I realised we have over 1,000 forest reserves.”

“I sent the team to Kenya and they brought out a paper, and I said, then, three years ago, that our next crisis would be in the forest. And it is with us right now.”

“It requires a multifaceted approach. Everyone has to come on board for us to be able to address the insecurity situation. You can never have enough weapons, personnel and so on, but there are issues we must address, and it has to be all about the nation.”