 The federal High Court seating in Abuja has ordered that Kanu be remanded in DSS facility and adjourned his matter to July the 26th and 27th. A former director of the DSS, Dennis Ammachary, is joining us tonight. Good evening Mr. Ammachary. I'm fine, thank you. Glad you could join us for this. Well, now that Nabi Kanu has been arrested, do you foresee any increase in the kind of hostilities we have witnessed in the southeastern part of Nigeria in the last few weeks and months? Well, it's a very nice situation and we cannot tell much about what is going to happen about the reaction of his followers. But we have to realize that this was a guy that jumped bail and outside the bail he was also making some statements, you know, which I think the government might have found very, very reasonable. So, well, now that he's back, he will continue with the court case, you know, just like before he jumped the bail. So, I don't foresee any strange things coming up. So, how should security forces handle any such agitations or protests as you put them? Normally, we will have people that believe seriously in need to protest and if it is a violent protest, of course, we know how it goes in this country. I will advise that everybody, both the government and the people of April, should use this opportunity to at least talk to each other because it's a dicey period in the nation where different nationalities are all talking about leaving the union. And I think instead we should talk, everybody should talk to each other and then of course, certainly. Well, there are many youth, well, we've seen youth protests, especially in the southeast particularly, those who believe that this movement by Kano is their surest hope for a brighter future. How would you advise the leaders in the southeast to kind of discuss or dialogue a reign in this youth to put an end to it or to calm them down, to avoid some of the kind of fatalities we've seen in the past as security agents try to quail such uprisings? You know, this particular case is so complicated because contrary to some propaganda, many of the leaders of the southeast are not in support of Kano. Yeah, so those are people who are also opinion leaders in the east. So his own supporters are there but there is a light shock of Easterners who also don't believe in it. Well, with your experience, what kind of security arrangement do you think will be in place when the trial starts? Will it be public? Will the journalists be allowed to cover it? Would it be a secret trial? All right, well I think of course they have to strengthen their security because even in this absence, we have people who are busy going around calling police stations and stuff like that. You know, now that their leader has been arrested, of course, I believe that a big of them will be able to come out and do more. But they have to be careful because these things do not end the way they start. Well, being a former director of the DSS, I think it will be in place to ask you this question. In security, all over the place in the country, in the north, we have the Boko Haram insurgency, you know, the militants. And we believe it's a month to the deadline. We believe this administration has given itself and the Boko Haram insurgency in the north. Do you see the government applying the kind of tenacity we're seeing playing out right now in the north? I did get that question very well. We do understand that this administration has given itself a kind of deadline which will end up in a month time to put an end to Boko Haram insurgency in the north. I'm asking, do you see this kind of tenacity that we've seen in the recapturing of kind of playing out in the north? Oh well, I don't know. These are two different fronts where we have civil disturbances. So the Boko Haram insurgency is totally different from the agitation of an independent state by being an iPhone. Yeah, but they are both causing trouble all across the different parts of this country. Definitely. Those are problems that are facing the government of the day. So that's why I would advise that, you know, instead of working more battle fronts, it is high time, I think, government sit down with the different agitators. It's not only iPhone, we have in the west, we have in the east, we have in the south, we have in the northeast. So this is time for us to start looking at it properly, closely, and then of course try and see if we are made the best because it is truly the country by the edge of the precipice. And I don't think that's the best we have to work with. Oh, thank you, Mr. Dennis Amachere, for joining us to take a look at this very, very important issue tonight. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.