NISS advances cause of the Federal Republic of Nigeria  —  Osemawe

By Abiodun OBA

The National Institute for Security Studies (NISS), as the apex agency in the training of members of the nation’s intelligence community at the highest level, has done so much to advance the cause of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The traditional ruler of Ondo Kingdom, Oba Dr. Victor Adesimbo Kiladejo, Osemawe of the Ondo Kingdom, stated this while addressing a delegation of the Executive Intelligence Management Course 16 from the NISS that paid him a courtesy visit in his palace in Ondo.

According to the First Class Monarch, “As the apex agency in the training of members of the nation’s intelligence community at the highest level, it cannot be overemphasized that you have been doing so much to advance the cause of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“In the entire architecture of security, intelligence is globally privileged as the very foundation of effectiveness.

“This truth has been demonstrated over and over again in our country in the manner of the very professional intervention of the intelligence community in our security.

“What most people are not aware of is that a great deal of the relative tranquillity that we have in our communities is attributable to the quiet engagement of the intelligence community with several issues.

“It is where gaps exist and security breaches happen that people see, not the countless numbers of what could ordinarily have created security embarrassments that did not happen because, through intelligence, such had been nipped in the bud.

“On this, I thank you most sincerely, on behalf of our community, for the job you are doing for our country. Here, in Ondo Kingdom, we can claim that we have a degree of peace that is worthy of celebrating.

“This has not always been so. Some years back, we actually felt the security situation was not just bad, but that it was indeed getting out of hand.

He stated further that “With my High Chiefs and other critical stakeholders, and involving all the formal and informal security agencies, we decided to intervene in a very creative but effective manner.