In our Sunday Sun, May 25 edition, there was a mix-up in the contribution of General Chris Eze (retd), a former High Commissioner of Nigeria to India, who is now a Labour Party chieftain in Enugu State.
We hereby present his actual comments on the published report:
“To make this kind of decentralisation work in security, state governors must replicate, nearly if not wholly, the kind of conditions of service that members of national security agencies enjoy, which makes them regularly return to doing their dangerous duties regardless of the casualties they suffer.
“In the course of fighting heavily armed bandits, those forest guards will operate alongside members of federally-sponsored security agencies, and in the process, they are bound to suffer casualties. In military training institutions and operational planning, the acceptance of that probability is a given.
“If such casualties occur and the forest guards or their next of kin are denied the compensation that is guaranteed to the other elements, a sharp drop in morale will inevitably follow. That is my worry.”
We, therefore, regret this mix-up, which was not intentional, and also apologise to General Chris Eze.
