Musa made this revelation on Thursday while delivering a keynote lecture at the second Distinguished Personality Lecture Series hosted by the TETFund Centre of Excellence in Security Management (TECESM) at Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, Oyo State.
Speaking on the theme “Global Fragility and Security Management in Nigeria,” the Defence Chief painted a sobering picture of Nigeria’s vulnerability to both internal and transnational security threats, urging a national overhaul of security architecture in response to growing instability in the region.
“Fragile states are no longer distant concerns,” he said. “They pose a direct and immediate threat to regional and global peace—and Nigeria is not insulated.”
He identified the smuggling of arms from conflict zones in the Sahel and North Africa as a key driver of violence in Nigeria’s northern regions, empowering terrorist groups, bandits, and ethnic militias.
