 And following the insistent insecurity bedeviling the nation, particularly the Northeast and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Liu Irabo, has interacted with the retired military officer in the Northeast to find a lasting solution. General Irabo said that the retired generals in the Northeast geopolitical zone have a great role to play in curbing the activities of kidnapping, Boko Haram, and all forms of insecurity in the nation. A correspondent now reports. Worryed by the security challenges faced in the country, particularly in the Northeast and part, the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabo says the experience and ideas of retired senior military officers will go a long way in tackling the menace. General Irabo said the military is taking serious measures to bring the security challenges ranging from the abduction of school children, among others, to an end. We asked him to the early hours attack on NDA that led to the death of one officer in the abduction of a major. The CDS said the incident is worrisome and the military is looking into it with keen interest. There's few days, few weeks, of course, we expect that the situation will keep getting better and better. It's part of the reason why I'm here, along with my team, to interact with our retired senior colleagues. What we're looking for is a solution, a holistic solution at that. We believe that as we engage with them, they'll be able to open up to us areas that we may not have actually thought of and things perhaps which they may consider as mistakes that we've made and for us to make corrections. The whole essence is to indicate that this problem, the solution to this problem, is everybody's business. Earlier, the Commander 23 Brigade, Brigade Amino Garber, who represented the GOC through the vision, said the contemporary security challenges in the region called for a holistic approach that entails all, hence, to be undec, including the retired senior military officers. As a privilege, most of the Chief of Defense, myself, I must command the DEA team and, of course, the defense headquarters for this laudable initiative of tapping on the wealth or experience of the retired military officers through cross-partialization of ideas, finding a way forward to the contemporary security challenges we're dealing with in our nation. One of the senior retired generals applauded the efforts of the Chief of the Defense staff describing the gathering as timely and that it will go a long way in addressing the challenges we're dealing with in the country.