We can engage these defence contractors to help us solve this problem assuming our conventional forces have shown or demonstrated so far that they cannot handle it.”
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has urged President Bola Tinubu-led administration to outsource the fight against terrorism in the country.
This, he said, had become imperative since the desired results against terrorism and insurgency have not been achieved by the Nigerian military.
He urged the President to follow the path of Russia and the United States who had engaged defence contractors in dealing with those threatening their territorial integrity.
“We can engage these defence contractors to help us solve this problem assuming our conventional forces have shown or demonstrated so far that they cannot handle it. This is something we have to resolve ourselves. So, we can outsource it, if that is going to give us results.
“We can outsource this fight. We can do this with our shoulders lifted high. Even advanced countries like Russia, for instance, use the Wagner Group. In the US, there is the Blackwater. These are defence contractors,” Dogara said on Friday during a Channels TV programme, Inside Sources.
To get the desired results, he argued that the Federal Government must be open to seeking help through external sources to eradicate Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists wreaking havoc in the North East.
“We are talking about results. It’s only a stupid, foolish person who opposes results. I don’t know if that is a definition of wisdom: to keep doing something the same way and expect different results. We have done this thing for how many years now and there have been no results. We can engage these people and they can work together with the conventional forces,” the former lawmaker said.
– PUNCH