 The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, WANEP, has asked the federal government to consider the involvement of citizens in its national security architecture to help address the nation's current security challenges. Speaking to Newsman Inabuja, the executive director of WANEP, Chukwe Meka Eze, says for Nigeria to enjoy lasting stability, government should prioritize the security of its citizens and pay attention to their needs. The added that government together with regional organizations should begin the adoption of citizen-centric approach as it is capable of repairing the damage caused by conflict. One of the paradoxes of security is that which provides security to the state makes even the citizens afraid. If you see too many amortangs, rather than get few secured, you feel afraid. And that's why we need to rethink from the beginning, appointment of national security advisors, the kind of architecture we are building, the kind of investment we are making in our quarrying amortangs and whether that is going to sustain peace on the long run or whether we need to change our focus to ensuring that we begin to provide some of the basic needs that will make people comfortable. Security architecture issue is not only a state business, so it is important for the state to do necessities amongst the people so that the people can also be able to respond if they have the adequate information. Some people came, carried about 500 students, so nobody saw them when they were in college. So there are a lot of things to complain about from the regional side. And I think that the government is not only that enough. If there is not indigenous knowledge, information that the community can also tell us, when they see strength with this community, we need to do that. We need to understand so that they can build a network between the government's responses and the community's responses. 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.