 Two people have been killed at the residential area of the Nigerian Defense Academy in the early hours of today. One other person has also been adopted according to a statement by the Academy spokesman Bashir Jajira. The statement goes on to indicate that the academy community and cadets are safe and that the attackers will be apprehended. Chidi Omoje joins us now live. He is the editor-in-chief of Nigeria Security Digest. Hello Mr Omeje. Yeah, I'm here. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I appear on the network. It's the plane. Okay. How is this possible that soldiers will be killed and kidnapped at the NDA? Well, just like in the Nigerian, it was, it was shocking. It was, it was embarrassing. It was humiliating really, but it was not unexpected because you have the magnitude of insecurity in a country that you, you've seen, we've seen, nothing we've not seen actually, you know, we've seen a lot of things happening. And you see, I'm not really so shocked because if you know that particular area, that environment called NDA is a very expansive institution, you know, and I understand that they came in through the area far away from the prime eyes of the security guards. And of course, they, you know, it's something that I won't believe that they were taken unawares and in any case, whatever, sorry, I can't get you. You had it, you have it on good authority that they did not come in through the gate because some of the reports revealed that they came in through the gate. No, no, no, I had it in military uniform. No, I think, well, for my own information, I got that I had that they came in through the area in the night and through the, you know, where the residential quarters. So you couldn't have been through the main gates, but that, but that's not that, that was really what matters is that something like that happened. And it is part of the criminality we're talking about. So to me, it is a course for worry. It is a national embarrassment. There's no doubt about that. But I want to believe that the military should be able to track down those bandits and then serve justice to them. All right. When I first heard this, the first thing that came to mind is the Nigerian Defense Academy. Where else is safe? How worried should Nigerians be? Well, that is the, that is not the reality. It is, it calls for worry. No doubt about that. Nobody expected it. And you see, if you know the psychology of this criminal, these bandits, or some people, some people say it's only calling them bandits that are terrorists. I think I want to believe that if, if, if they are able to infiltrate such a fortified situation, then they're really, you know, something to worry about. But like, what we should be talking about right now is what do we do to stop this, you know, the generation of insecurity in this country? Lamenting about the NDA would not have anything. It has happened. It has happened. Now what we do, how do we get the one they adopted out? How do we make sure that something that doesn't happen again in the future? That should be what, that should be what should be open more or open more in our mind for now. That's what I think. So what should we do? Because if I ask this question many times over and over again, when we experience similar incidents in the country, and so what should we do? You so mentioned, what should the Nigerian military do? What should the Nigerian government do? What should Nigerians do? What should Nigerians do? Good question. They are just this time we are in is very, very momentous. The time we are in is very, very how do I put it, exciting, exciting. It says that you have a magnitude of insecurity that is confounded. So when you have such a situation, the best you do as a country is to what is to support the government, support the military, make sure that we do not talk in, we don't, we don't distract them in their, you know, in their efforts to surmount the problem. We cannot just sit back and begin to lament, begin to probably laugh at the military or, you know, jail and the government. That's not going to solve the situation because you don't know where next, where next they will strike. So the best thing to do now is to say something, when we see something, to provide information, when we want to have them to be in their separate agencies, and of course, you know, make sure that we play our part as citizens. You know, sitting back and laughing and scoffing at the situation will not happen to anybody. We should be talking about how do we make sure that this, you know, the security across the country is abated. I am worried as a person that our country is passing through this sort of insecurity at a time like this. Can I just tell you that I don't know any Nigerian right now who is laughing at the Nigerian military, but rather they are worried one for the military, worried about the country and wondering what do we do as a government, as the military. Now you've answered, what should Nigerians do that part? But what should the military be doing now, different from what they've been doing before now? And what should the government be doing now, different from what they've been doing before today? I think, let me start from what government should be doing. Government should understand that when you have situations like this, you have to carry the people along. You have to make sure that you have a nice support across the country. You have to make sure that you don't, you don't, you know, do things that actually make it easy for criminals or make it, make it just like this to government more. So, and then coming to the military, I think the military on their own part should invest more on intelligence, invest more on their intelligence assets to be able to nip business around the board because I want to believe that the crime that took place today was not just, didn't just start, they made, they have planned it and probably there are some infiltrations, probably there are some moles are able to give to give them, you know, any information that we're able to infiltrate that area. But, you know, we must, let's not, let's look beyond the military now, let's look at, you know, how we as a country should be able to, you know, they walk, you know, warm voice and to ensure that these things are, you know, nipped on the board in the future. Well, thank you so much for your time, Mr. Chidi Mejee. Thank you, my pleasure, I appreciate that.