The Director General of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre, Major General Garba Wahab, has said the military’s primary role was to defend the nation against external threats and quell insurrections, with training focused on combat and tactical operations.
He said their expertise lay in high-intensity conflicts, not internal security or law enforcement, explaining that internal security, maintenance of law and order, and civilian protection typically fell under the purview of other agencies, such as the police, trained for these specific tasks.
General Wahab, in a chat with THISDAY, said: “We believe that it is cheaper, easier, faster to deploy the military. So we keep on deploying them both. We are failing to realise that they have a responsibility which is different.
