With kidnapping now the most lucrative industry in Nigeria, the National Assembly needs to urgently pass an Emergency Security Measures Bill 2026 before elections

Ayo Akinfe

[1] Nigeria’s intelligence agencies must be compelled to publish details of any politician, monarch or publicly exposed person on whom they have information that he could be a sponsor of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers or hoodlums

[2] Herdsmen association Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria and all its splinter groups must be declared terrorist organisations

[3] Divisional police officers must be given the mandate to arrest and prosecute everyone who is still in possession of an AK47 by December 1 2026. A minimum jail sentence of 10 years will be the punishment for possession

[4] Mobile courts will be established to try hoodlums who are camped in our forests

[5] Nigerian Army units will be deployed to schools across northern Nigeria to offer protection to pupils

[6] As part of a plan to establish a regional tier of policing, the federal government must fund regional security groups like Amotekun and the Eastern Security Network

[7] The Nigerian Army must be deployed along our northern border with Niger Republic, Chad. Cameroon and Benin Republic to address the matter of gun smuggling

[8] Nigeria’s federal government must ask international military organisations like Nato to provide them with intelligence and surveillance data and video footage on all terrorist activities in their possession

[9] Nigeria currently has a negative police-to-citizens ratio of 35 to 100,000 inhabitants. A major recruitment drive must be initiated to increase this to the United Nations average of 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. We are in serious deficit at the moment

[10] Nigeria’s federal government must initiate plans to launch dedicated anti-terror and elite commando units in both the Nigeria Police Force and the three arms of the military services. They must be trained up the level of say British SAS units or US Navy Seals

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