Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, says bandits ravaging parts of the country have foreign sponsors.
Audi made this claim while speaking at the training workshop for state commandants of the NSCDC in Abuja, on Wednesday.
He said Nigeria is experiencing an asymmetric war that requires inter-agency collaboration among security agencies.
The Civil Defence boss said, “Following how events are unfolding in the country, we are experiencing a serious conflict that I think in the history of Nigeria, this is about the first conflict that will give us a serious problem and the conflict is called asymmetric war.
“We have had in the past some semblance of this type of war but the proper manifestation of it is the one we are seeing now and asymmetric war is a war that requires all hands to be on deck if we really want to deal with it and nip it in the bud.
“These guys are serious; these guys have international sponsors, so we need to come together.”
Audi appealed to security agencies to avoid rivalry, stressing that collaboration is needed to win the war against banditry.
