Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has advised the Federal Government to consider employ the services of defence contractors to help fight the war against insurgency.
Dogara was a lawmaker in the green chamber for 16 consecutive years from 2007 to 2023, representing Dass/Bogoro/Tafawa Balewa Constituency from Bauchi State, one of the six states in the insurgent-prone North-East zone of Nigeria.
The former speaker said the military has tried its best in about two decades now but the desired results have not been achieved, lamenting that Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists still wreak havoc in the North East.
According to him, there cannot be foreign direct investments when insecurity has become the order of the day.
“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 Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, on Friday.
“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 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.”
