John Silas
Commander of the Anti-Conflict Peace Keeping Service, Kenneth Garuba has made it clear that his outfit was designed to give early warning.
Commander Garuba was speaking at the Headquarters of the Anti-Conflict group at Agor-Palace Way, Lagos State recently during the training of the group.
Garuba took the stand while responding to the question on the role his organization will play in the new administration. He said “We will continue to give early warning; that is what we have been signed for under the Ministry of Interior. We continue giving early warning. If the military, paramilitary, civilians, if they love this country, Nigeria, they should get this warning or this advice from Anti- Conflict, they should get it to their office. Nobody should cause any problem if they love the country, but when you hate the country, you can force people who are not qualified to be there to be there, which means you hate the country. But when you like the country, I tell you, you will allow peace to reign, you allow justice to reign, you allow right to reign; that is what I see.”
Commander Garuba also spoke on the plan by the group to organize a seminar in the near future once the new administration comes on board. “In the new administration, what Anti-Conflict Peace Keeping Service will do is very simple, we are not a hidden body, the para-military Anti-Conflict, stands for justice, integrity, all we can do is to make sure we put together some seminar where we will invite other arms of government, like Navy, Army, Air-force, and Police, all the para-military, so that Anti-Conflict will educate them to make sure they learn how to avoid problems.”
He also lent his voice in condemnation of the call for Military takeover or Interim Government in Nigeria, saying that it is wrong “It is wrong, Interim Government, from which angle, military, supported by civilian or who, which area, is it the people that said the military cannot take over again? Why do you want to push them back to the same position they rejected them for, why? So for me Anti-Conflict generally, we want somebody that will do Nigeria well, everyone should learn how to respect justice because such a thing is gone, no more justice again, no more right again, no more truth again, as I know military reach, what we are seeing today in military, that is not what it used to be, everybody worked according to the division of labour, but go to some areas today, you see military officer doing police work, police is doing their own, LASMA, everything, all the people wearing uniform, no one go to what they are trained for, and these are the things Anti-Conflict found out and would not allow it to continue like this.”
On his advice to Nigerian youths, and what should be their role in the incoming administration, he replied “Enough is enough to the so-called politicians to use them, enough is enough. Youths of Nigeria should learn how to grow with sense, wisdom and knowledge, if their mother that carry them in the womb fight the time they were in the womb, if their mother were fighting, they won’t bring them out, so they should see it that fight, problems, conflict in Nigeria will not help any of them, rather it will pull them down.”
