Former National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Buba Galadima, has said Nigeria must tackle the root cause of insecurity which according to him is ‘fighting corruption.’

Galadima, speaking on Channels Tv on Tuesday said the country was currently battle symptoms of insecurity.

He said: ‘Why don’t we go into the root cause? The root cause is simply that very few people corner Nigeria’s resources to themselves. An ordinary man has nothing to do, to eat. All we need to do, we must attack the foundation of insecurity in Nigeria, that is fighting corruption.”

Galadima criticized President Muhammadu Buhari for not attending the funeral of the Late Chadian President Idris Deby, who was killed last week by insurgents.

“Nigeria has become extremely vulnerable and we lost a very good chance when our president refused to attend the burial of the Chadian strongman,” he said.

He went on to say that the Nigerian military is overstretched that Nigeria does not have enough manpower to tackle insecurity in the south-east, north-east, north-central.

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“For now, I sympathise with the military because they are overstretched, under-armed and their morale is so low, so all we need to do is to boost their morale.

“Because there were world leaders including France and it could have been a very big opportunity if the president was there and discuss the security situation in both West and Central Africa. As we know, the Chadian strong man was the super cop in this region. He has soldiers stationed in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic to maintain peace.

“We lost this chance again because two days ago, the military council in Chad said they will never negotiate with bandits which means Chad will fall into civil war and you have the proliferation of small arms coming into Nigeria. And Nigerian military is overstretched; not enough manpower to tackle insecurity in the south-east, north-east, north-central, it means that the north can be overrun anytime.

“For now, I sympathise with the military because they are overstretched, under-armed and their morale is so low, so all we need to do is to boost their morale.

“Tribal wars in Chad will make small arms filter into Nigeria and our military will be incapacitated. We have to recruit mercenaries to assist the spirit and carriage of our own troops.”