A former Director Operations of the Department of State Services, DSS, Chief Raymond Nkemdirim has said brute force alone will not end the separatist agitation going on in the Southeast geopolitical zone, calling on government to take corrective actions politically to douse the tension, ABN TV reports.
Speaking at his home in Abuja on Saturday when a delegation of Igbere TV management paid him a visit to inform him of his nomination for award of Outstanding Security Achievement, Nkemdirim who retired as the Director Operations in the Service after 35 years said the agitation is caused by a number of factors, including marginalization.
He insisted that until these are addressed and every region of the country given a sense of belonging, force alone is not enough to quell the crisis.
He said there a mindset of marginalization which shooting alone cannot address, adding that wrong political actions in the past has heightened the call for a separate nation, Biafra.
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Nkemdirim particularly mentioned the issue of political appointment that did not represent Federal Character as one of the factors that need to be addressed.
He said out of the three regions of the country, only South East does not have a representation at the security circle of the current government, submitting that it creates a sense of alienation.
He also expressed concern that there has not been equity in the power balancing among the regions.
According to the security expert, while other regions of the country had at one time or the other produced the President, Southeast has not done so.
He therefore called on political parties not to zone their Presidential tickets elsewhere ahead of 2023 election apart from the Southeast to reduce the call for a separate state.
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