The House of Representatives has resolved to mandate the Security Agencies in Nigeria to immediately commence the use of National Identification Number (NIN) in their technology to trace and curb insecurity across the country.
The House also mandated the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory to install security cameras around the capital and its environs
They also mandated the Minister to install security gadgets and equip security personnel with modern security gadgets to combat the rising insecurity within the Territory.
The House also mandated heads of all Security Agencies to urgently collaborate among themselves, train and set up special units within their formations to track and clamp down on criminal elements within and around the capital.
The resolution by the House followed the adoption of a motion on a matter of urgent public importance by Dominic Okafor titled “Very urgent need to curb the deteriorating insecurity in the federal capital territory, Abuja”.
The Lawmaker noted that the Federal Capital Territory is and remains the seat of the Federal Government from where national policies are formulated, where the headquarters of federal government agencies are domiciled, where international edifices are located and where majority of foreigners and visitors are residents among others.
“Aware that the government of nearby Nasarawa State has announced plans to install security cameras across their state to curb the distressing security challenges in the state which ought to be replicated in Abuja being the centre of the nation and should be the safest place in the country. Very worried that the level of insecurity ravaging the capital is, to say the least, very disappointing and unbefitting of a Federal Capital City. Concerned that the last administration, through the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy compulsorily registered and linked the National Identification Numbers (NIN) with the telephone numbers of Nigerians and further linked same with various bank accounts with the main purpose of curbing the rising spate of insecurity in the country. Disturbed that since the compulsory registration and linking of the National Identification Numbers (NIN) by the Federal Government, there has never been a time it was deployed to tackle or address the pressing and scary state of insecurity in the federal capital territory or the nation at large. Further worried that since criminal elements in and around the Federal Capital Territory are speedily evolving from the norm to advanced techniques of criminality, the security agencies ought to urgently move to digitalize their operations to return the Federal Capital Territory to its safest haven in the Country with the use of drones, closed-circuit television (CCTV) and other modern sophisticated security gadgets” he said.
Okafor added that restructuring the nation economically and politically as is obtainable in most Western economies is the next most appropriate step the Federal Government of Nigeria should take in a bid to address the economic, political and security concerns of Nigerians.
Emmanuel Ukoh
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