The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has stressed the importance of families in strengthening Nigeria’s internal security.
Gen. Musa made this known on Thursday while declaring the 2025 edition of Exercise Haske Biyu closed at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji.
He explained that the exercise focused on family values, civic responsibility, and moral resilience as essential components in addressing internal security challenges—issues that are also shared by other nations represented at the programme.
According to him, “The family is the bedrock of every community. Without the family, there can’t be a good community. What we have realised is that because the family system is failing, insecurity is growing, which means if we address the security, the family issues, insecurity will go down.”
He added that citizens must recognise why families are structured and organised, noting that discipline remains central. “That is why you have the regulations. That is how people grow up to understand what it is to be human, what it is to respect one another and what it is to love one another,” he said.
The CDS further highlighted that family unity is crucial to national peace. “If families are united, then we are brothers keepers and will not allow harm to happen to any other person, and Nigeria will be better,” he said