Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and founder of Women Youth Children and Crime Organisation, WYCCO, a Non Governmental Organisation, Dr Mrs. Farida Waziri has charged the various layers of Nigeria’s security apparatus to invest in and deploy technology to complement human efforts in tackling the numerous security challenges facing the country at the moment.
Waziri spoke in Makurdi, the Benue state capital where she led other officials of WYCCO to donate relief materials to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camps in the state. While commiserating with the state governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, and victims of the recent killings in parts of the state, the former police chief said “What we are here doing today is to identify with the people of Benue, especially families of the victims and the displaced by bringing succor through essential relief materials to the various IDP camps in the state as a complement to what governments at different levels and other concerned persons and groups have been doing.”
While noting that the NGO is committed to rendering humanitarian services to victims of violence and advocacy against violent attacks especially against the vulnerable in the society, Waziri said “For us at WYCCO, we take inspiration from the statement of a former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill who once said “you make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.” According to her “Bringing relief materials to support and assist the victims of violent attacks can only be a temporary measure. A long lasting solution is for the various security agencies to rise to the challenge of their constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of citizens; farmers and herdsmen alike, wherever they find themselves in any part of the country, through preventive measures. Prevention, they say, is better than cure. A life lost can never be regained, no matter what we do thereafter. That this is happening too early in a year of political campaigns should get us thinking and looking beyond surface evaluation.