The Community Anchor Programme (CAP), a grassroots-driven security initiative, has announced the launch of the Strategic Tactical Intervention Gear (STING), a new intelligence-led framework aimed at strengthening how local communities respond to threats such as kidnapping, banditry, insurgency, and violent extremism.
Speaking to WAVN, CAP Founder and security strategist, Shaibu Ojochide Shaibu, described STING as a community-based intelligence and security framework designed to improve early warning systems and professionalize local vigilance structures across African communities.
According to Shaibu, the initiative was developed in response to persistent intelligence gaps at the grassroots level, where communities are often the first to witness suspicious activities, attacks, and emerging threats, yet lack the training, coordination, and infrastructure needed to respond effectively.
He noted that many African countries continue to grapple with rising insecurity, overstretched security agencies, and growing distrust between vulnerable communities and formal institutions – factors that have weakened preventive security efforts across the continent.
“The goal is not to replace existing security agencies, but to create a stronger community-driven intelligence structure capable of generating timely and actionable information,” he said.
Nigeria, particularly the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), will serve as the pilot location for the initiative before its planned expansion into other parts of West Africa and the broader African continent.
The framework is expected to focus on intelligence gathering, digital literacy, civic engagement, communication training, and the professionalization of existing community-based security structures.
CAP is also calling on African governments, development partners, private-sector organisations, and community leaders to support the initiative through strategic partnerships, policy engagement, and corporate social responsibility investments aimed at strengthening community-centered security systems across Africa.
