{"id":81522,"date":"2026-01-13T06:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81522"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:16:06","slug":"buratai-warns-rising-use-of-soldiers-for-internal-security-weakens-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/13\/buratai-warns-rising-use-of-soldiers-for-internal-security-weakens-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Buratai Warns Rising Use of Soldiers for Internal Security Weakens Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), has cautioned that the growing reliance on soldiers for internal security operations across Nigeria is weakening the capacity and professionalism of the Nigeria Police Force and other civilian security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Buratai made the remark on Monday while delivering the keynote address at the 2026 Armed Forces Celebration and Remembrance Day lecture in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that although the deployment of military personnel across the country provides short-term stability, it has created a dependency that undermines civilian-led security institutions and overstretches the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the trend diverts defence resources to routine policing duties and reduces the military\u2019s preparedness to respond to external threats, contrary to its constitutional mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Buratai stressed that internal security should be intelligence-driven and led by civilian agencies, particularly the police and state security services, while the military should only provide support when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that prolonged internal security roles could compromise the Armed Forces\u2019 core responsibility of defending the nation and called for a clear and time-bound strategy to return internal security duties to civilian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David\u00a0 Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), has cautioned that the growing reliance on soldiers for internal security operations across Nigeria is weakening the capacity and professionalism of the Nigeria Police Force and other civilian security agencies. Buratai made the remark on Monday while delivering the keynote address at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81524,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81522\/revisions\/81524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}