Professor Yemi Osinbajo has stated that Nigeria’s intelligence agencies must adopt a culture that is empirical, data-driven and analytical.<\/p>\n
This was stated on Saturday by the vice president in his\u00a0address at the graduation ceremony of the executive intelligence management course (EIMC) 14 of the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja.<\/p>\n
According to Osinbajo, it has become imperative to reinvent the institutional culture of intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the unpredictable events that we must be prepared for. We must try especially because we have been given the responsibility to think ahead of a nation of this size and of this complexity. It falls upon our lives to plan ahead and to be imaginative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not enough for intelligence services to anticipate the threat that we have a clear line of sight to. Indeed, given the resource constraint that we face, we cannot afford to wait for the threat to become manifest dangers before we react.\u201d<\/p>\n
The vice-president said intelligence agencies must be proactive rather than reactive, adding that threats must be identified and addressed well before they evolve into manifest spheres.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a very heavy burden indeed; but the truth is that the intelligence community, by the very nature of its mandate, is charged with being several steps ahead of the rest of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis requires a high capacity for imagination; in fact, I will go so far as to say that, in many respects, a failure of intelligence is a failure of imagination.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagination is also a function of what you read; what you listen to. What are you reading right now? Have you read the latest books on the dark web or the activities of global criminal networks?<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you intensely, constantly acquainting yourself with the most up-to-date thinking and knowledge in the security sector?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe knowledge economy and information age is characterised by constant innovation and it is moving swiftly. It is so fluid that conventional wisdom is becoming obsolete every single day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe security and intelligence sector is not exempt from all the dynamics that face our world day. But I must say that perhaps the most critical area is that we must reinvent the institutional culture of our security and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur security and intelligence agencies must adopt a culture that is empirical, data-driven, analytical and defined by forensic rhythm.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbove all, we must emphasise inter-agency collaboration and synergy; this is absolutely important. We are as good as the synergy between all of the agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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